Let's learn about "목덜미가 아파"

목덜미가 아파 : My neck hurts / My neck ache

[other expressions]

- 목덜미가 아프다. (to younger people or friends)

- 목덜미가 아프네. (to younger people or friends)

- 목덜미가 아퍼. (to younger people or friends)

- 목덜미가 아프군! (to younger people or friends)

- 목덜미가 아프구나! (to younger people or friends)

- 목덜미가 아프네요. (honourific by '요')

- 목덜미가 아프군요. (honourific by '요')

- 목덜미가 아파요. (honourific by '요')

- 목덜미가 아픕니다. (formal; honourific by '-ㅂ')

[explanations]

* 목덜미 : [=뒷덜미] nape (of one's neck); back of one's neck

* -가 : a particle makes 목덜미 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a consonant

* 아프다 : hurt; ache

* 아파 : 아프(the stem of 아프다; 으 erased before 어) + -아(a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* 아픕니다 : 아프(the stem of 아프다) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

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

* a verb + -군! / -구나! : a non-honourific exclamatory verb ending suffix

* a verb + -네 / -아 / -군! + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix

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