Let's learn about "왜 그렇게 울상인데?"

왜 그렇게 울상인데? : Why are you crying like that? / Why do you look so sad?

[other expressions]

- 왜 그렇게 울상이니? (to younger people or friends)

- 왜 그렇게 울상이냐? (to younger people or friends)

- 왜 그렇게 울상이야? (to younger people or friends)

- 왜 그렇게 울상인데? (to younger people or friends)

- 왜 그렇게 울상인데요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 왜 그렇게 울상이에요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 왜 그렇게 울상입니까? (formal; honourific by ‘-ㅂ’)

[explanations]

* 왜 : why

* 그렇게 : like that

* 울상 : [Pronunciation: 울쌍] a face ready to cry; a tearful face; a tearful face; a face about to cry; weeping eyes

- 울상을 짓다 = 울상이 되다 : be close to tears / be on the verge of tears / be ready[about] to cry

* 이다 : be

* a noun ends in a vowel + -니? / -냐? / -야? / -ㄴ데 = a noun ends in a consonant + -이니? / -이냐? / -이야? / -인데? : a non-honourific interrogative form of 이다

* a noun + -ㄴ데? / -인데? + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix

* a noun ends in a vowel + -ㅂ니까? = a noun ends in a consonant + -입니까? : a honourific interrogative form of 이다 by ‘-ㅂ’