2022-05-12

Let's learn about "걔는 너보다 어려"

걔는 너보다 어려 : He/She is younger than you

[other expressions]
- 걔는 너보다 어리다. (to younger people or friends)
- 걔는 너보다 어리네. (to younger people or friends)
- 걔는 너보다 어려. (to younger people or friends)
- 걔는 너보다 어리네요. (honourific by '-요')
- 걔는 너보다 어려요. (honourific by '-요')
- 걔는 너보다 어립니다. (formal; honourific by '-ㅂ')

[explanations]
* 걔 : * 걔 : he or she (non-honourific word means "그 아이”(that boy or girl) / "그 사람(that man or that woman is younger than us)
* -는 : a particle makes 걔 subjective after a word ends in a vowel; this omitted

* 걘 : a short form of 걔 + 는

* 너 / 니 : you (non-honourific word)
* 오빠 : older brother of a girl; a man is older than someone

* -보다 : (... er) than

* 어린 : (1) yeanling; tender (2) young; younger
* 어리다 : be young; be younger

* 어려 : 어리(the stem of 어리다) + -여(an non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)
* 어립니다 : 어리(the stem of 어리다) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '-ㅂ')

* a verb + -다 / -네 / -여 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -네 / -여 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb + -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '-ㅂ'

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