Let's learn about "얼어죽겠다"

얼어죽겠다 : I'm freezing to death

[other expressions]

- 얼어죽겠다. (to younger people or friends)

- 얼어죽겠네. (to younger people or friends)

- 얼어죽겠어. (to younger people or friends)

- 얼어죽겠군! (to younger people or friends)

- 얼어죽겠구나! (to younger people or friends)

- 얼어죽겠네요. (honourific by '요')

- 얼어죽겠군요. (honourific by '요')

- 얼어죽겠어요. (honourific by '요')

- 얼어죽겠습니다. (formal; more honourific by '-스')

[explanations]

* 추운 : cold; algid; crimpy; shivery

* 춥다 : be cold; be algid; be crimpy; be shivery

* 춥게 : an adverb form of 안타까운

* 추워 : 춥(the stem of 춥다; ㅂ changed into 우) + -어(a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* ㅂ 불규칙 : the ㅂ of 춥다 is not 'B' sound but 'V' sound and V consists of ㅂ + 옛이응  ‘ㆁ’. these days  V sound changed into '우' for easy pronunciation

* See : https://m.blog.naver.com/nurisejong/221050681781

* 추워서 : 추워 + -(어)서(because; because of); this omitted

* 얼다 : (1) [=결빙하다] freeze; be frozen; [응결하다] congeal (2) [=기가 죽다] be cowed[intimidated]; be scared stiff; feel timid[small]; [=긴장하여] get nervous

- 꽁꽁[온통] 얼어붙은 연못[강] : a pond[river] frozen hard[all over]

- 꽁꽁 얼다 : be frozen up

- 추워서 꽁꽁 얼다 : be benumbed with cold

- 추워서 손이 얼었다 : My hands were benumbed with cold

- 수도꼭지가 얼어붙었다 : The faucet froze

- 추위로 몸이 얼었다 I am almost frozen with cold

- 시험에서 얼다 : get nervous at an examination

- 나는 첫 무대에서 얼어 버렸다 : It was my first stage, and I was scared stiff[had a terrible attack of stage fright]

* 얼어죽다 be frozen[freeze] to death / be frozen dead <-- 얼다 + -어(a connection suffix between two verbs) + 죽다(die)

* 얼어죽겠다 : 얼어죽(the stem of 얼어죽다) + -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

* 얼어죽겠습니다 : 얼어죽(the stem of 얼어죽다) + -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'