2022-10-12

Let's learn about "미치겠다"

미치겠다 : That drives me crazy

[other expressions]
- 미치겠다. (to younger people or friends)
- 미치겠네. (to younger people or friends)
- 미치겠어. (to younger people or friends)
- 미치겠군! (to younger people or friends)
- 미치겠구나! (to younger people or friends)
- 미치겠네요. (honourific by '요')
- 미치겠군요. (honourific by '요')
- 미치겠어요. (honourific by '요')
- 미치겠습니다. (formal; more honourific by '-스')

[explanations]
* 미친 : crazy
* 미치다 : be crazy; got crazy
* 미치겠다 : 미치(the stem of 미치다) + -겠(ones's conjecture) + -다(a non-honourific basic verb ending suffix)

* -겠- : [어미:Ending of a Word] (1) 미래의 일이나 추측을 나타내는 어미.(An ending of a word referring to a future event or assumption) (2) 말하는 사람의 의지를 나타내는 어미(An ending of a word referring to the speaker's will) (3) 가능성이나 능력을 나타내는 어미(An ending of a word indicates possibility or ability)
- [추측] 그 사람 오늘 오겠지 = 그 사람 오늘 올 거야 : He'll be here today
- [의지] 제가 하겠습니다 : I'll do it
- [가능성] 그런 것은 삼척동자도 알겠다 : Everybody know that
- [능력] 이걸 어떻게 혼자 다 하겠니? = 이건 혼자 할 수 없어 : How can I do this all by myself

* 미치겠습니다 : 미치(the stem of 미치다) + -겠(ones's conjecture) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -다 / -네 / -어 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -군! / -구나! : a non-honourific exclamatory verb ending suffix
* a verb + -네 / -어 / -군! + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb +  -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '스-' / '-ㅂ'

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