Let's learn about "엄청 걱정했어"

엄청 걱정했어 = 내가 얼마나 걱정했는데 : I worried sick / I was really worried

[other expressions]

- 엄청 걱정했다. (to younger people or friends)

- 엄청 걱정했네. (to younger people or friends)

- 엄청 걱정했어. (to younger people or friends)

- 엄청 걱정했는데. (to younger people or friends)

- 엄청 걱정했네요. (honourific by '요')

- 엄청 걱정했어요. (honourific by '요')

- 엄청 걱정했는데요. (honourific by '요')

- 엄청 걱정했습니다. (formal; more honourific by '스')

- 내가 얼마나 걱정했는데. (to younger people or friends)

- 제가 얼마나 걱정했는데요. (honourific by '요')

[explanations]

* 엄청 : (정도) very, (very) much, (informal) seriously, (informal) terribly, (informal) awfully

* 내 : I (non-honourific word)

* 제 : I (honourific word)

* -가 : a particle makes 내 / 제 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a vowel

* 얼마나 : [=엄청] (정도) how much; how many

* 걱정 : (1) [=근심] anxiety; concern; apprehension; worry; care; trouble (2) [=나무라는 일] a scolding; reproof; reproach; lecture

- 돈 걱정 : money troubles / financial worries / worries about money

- 집안 걱정 : family[domestic] cares

- 걱정이 없다 : be carefree / be free from worry / have nothing to worry about

- 걱정이 되다 : be anxious / worry[be worried] / (일이) weigh[press] on one's mind / cause anxiety

- 쓸데없는 걱정을 하다 : borrow trouble[sorrow] / be overanxious

- 걱정없이 살다 : live without worries

- 성적 때문에 선생님께 걱정을 들었다 : I was reproved for my poor grades by my teacher. / My teacher scolded me for my poor grades

* 걱정하다 = 걱정을 하다 : (1) [=나무라다•꾸중하다] scold; chide; reprove; reproach; lecture (2) care; be afraid; worry: be concerned

* 걱정했다 : past tense or present perfect form of 걱정하다 by '-었-'

* 걱정했습니다 : 걱정했(the stem of 걱정했다) + 스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -다 / -네 / -아 / -어 / -는데 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix

* a verb + -네 / -아 / -어 / -는데 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix

* a verb +  -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '스/' / '-ㅂ'