2023-02-07

Let's learn about "짠돌이"

너 진짜 짠돌이다 : You're so stingy; You're such a miser

[other expressions]
- 너 진짜 짠돌이다. (to younger people or friends)
- 너 진짜 짠돌이네. (to younger people or friends)
- 너 진짜 짠돌이야. (to younger people or friends)
- 너 진짜 짠돌이군! (to younger people or friends)
- 너 진짜 짠돌이구나! (to younger people or friends)
- 오빠 진짜 짠돌이네요. (honourific by '요')
- 오빠 진짜 짠돌이군요! (honourific by '요')
- 오빠 진짜 짠돌이에요. (honourific by '요')
- 오빠 진짜 짠돌입니다. (formal; honourific by '-ㅂ‘)

[explanations]
* 너 : you (non-honourific word)
* 오빠 : a brother of a girl; a man is older than a woman (honourific word)
* -는 : a particle makes 너 / 오빠 subjective after a word ends in a vowel

* 넌 : a short form of 너는
* 오빤 : a short form of 오빠는

* 짠돌이 : [=구두쇠, 수전노] miser, penny pincher, (informal) scrooge, (informal) cheapskate, (informal) skinflint, (Am, inf) tightwad

- 그는 지독한 구두쇠다 : He is a dreadful penny pincher

* 짠 : (1) (맛이) salty (2) (인색하다) (informal) stingy, (Am) cheap, (Brit) mean
- 있는 사람들이 더 짜다 : The haves are stingier than the have-nots

* 짜다 : (1) (물·액체 등을) squeeze; (빨래 등을) wring (out); (과일의 즙 등을) press (2) (생각·지혜 등을) rack one's brain (3) 3.(눈물·목소리 등을) squeeze; wring out
- 상처에서 고름을 짜다 : squeeze the pus from[out of] a wound
- 머리를 짜 봐도 답이 나오지 않았다 : I racked my brain for an answer but came up with none
- 억지로 눈물을 짜다 : squeeze out tears

* -입니다 : 이(the stem of 이다)  + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a noun + -이다 / -이네 / -이야 : a non-honourific descriptive form of 이다
* a noun + -이군! / -이구나! : a non-honourific exclamatory form of 이다
* a noun + -이네 / -이군! + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a noun +  -이에요 / -입니다 : an honourific descriptive form of 이다  by '-ㅂ'

* -이에요 : this is used after a noun word end in a consonant
- 동안이네요 : You look younger than your age

* -예요 : this is used after a noun word end in a vowel
- 손님이 주문하신 커피예요 : This is the coffee you ordered

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