2023-03-29

Let's learn about "이 옷 괜찮아요?"

이 옷 괜찮아요? : How do I look in this shirt?; Do I look okay with this top?; What do you think about this suit?; How’s my taste in clothes?

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A. 이 상의 괜찮아 보여? = 이 상의 괜찮게 보여 : Do I look okay with this top?

B. 너한테 너무 작은 것 같은데 : I think it’s too small for you

[oher expressions]
- 이 옷 괜찮니? (to younger people or friends)
- 이 옷 괜찮나? (to younger people or friends)
- 이 옷 괜찮냐? (to younger people or friends)
- 이 옷 괜찮아? (to younger people or friends)
- 이 옷 괜찮은가? (to younger people or friends)
- 이 옷 괜찮나요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 이 옷 괜찮아요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 이 옷 괜찮은가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 이 옷 괜찮습니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘-스’)

<경상 province dialect>
- 이 옷 개안나? (to younger people or friends)
- 이 옷 개안나요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 이 옷 개안습니까? (more honourific by ‘-스’)

[explanations]
* 이 : this

* 옷 : [의복: 衣服] clothes; <집합적> clothing; a garment; dress; (무대·가장용) costume; (주로 여성·여자아이의) a dress; (한 벌의) a suit
- 겉옷 : outer garments
- 속옷 : underwear
- 옷 한 벌 : a suit of clothes
- 헌 옷 : worn[used] clothes
- 한 번도 입지 않은 새 옷 : brand-[bran-]new
- 옷을 안 입고 : [=발가벗고] naked / nude / stripped / unclothed
- 옷을 입다 : put on one's clothes
- 옷을 벗다 : take one's clothes off
- 좋은 옷을 입고 있다 : be well dressed
- 옷이 많다 : have a large wardrobe
- 똑같은 옷을 입고 있다 : be uniformly dressed
- 아이의 옷을 벗겨 주다 : help a child off with his clothes
- 남의 옷을 벗기다 : strip of his clothes
- 옷을 개다 : fold one's clothes
- 옷을 걸치다 : fling one's clothes on
- 옷을 입으시오 : Put on your clothes
- 옷을 벗으시오 : Take off your clothes
- 그녀는 흰 옷을 입고 있었다 : She was dressed in white. / She was wearing a white dress
- 옷을 갈아입을 때까지 기다려 주시오 : Please wait I change (my clothes)
- 그에겐 이 감색 옷이 잘 어울린다 : This navy blue suit becomes him
- 그녀는 옷에 대하여 매우 까다롭다 : She is very fussy[particular] about her clothes
- 그녀는 옷을 유별나지 않게 잘 입고 다닌다 : She dresses well in an inconspicuous way
- 난 옷에는 관심이 없다 : I don't care how I dress
- 나는 입고 갈 옷이 없다 : I have nothing to go in
- 아이가 자라서 옷을 못 입게 되었다 : The boy has outgrown[grown out of] his clothes
- 옷이 날개다 : <속담(proverb)> Fine clothes make[The tailor makes] the man. / Fine feathers make fine birds

* -이 : a particle makes 옷 subjective after a word ends in a consonant 

* 웃옷 = 상의 : top <-- 위(upper; 이 erased before a consonant) + ㅅ(a letter inserted between two nouns) + 옷(garment); [上衣] : 상(upper) + 의(garment)

* 하의 : [下衣] (a pair of) trousers; pantaloons; pants <-- 하(under) + 의(garment)

* 괜찮다 : [Pronunciation: 괜찬타] (1) [=쓸 만하다] nice; good; not so bad; passable; fair; fine (2) [=무방하다] (사람이) may; can; be allowed to ; be justified in ; (사물이) justifiable; warrantable; all right; O.K.; will do (3) [=안심이다] safe; secure; free from danger; all right; O.K.

* 괜찮습니까 : 괜찮(the stem of 괜찮다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ시오(an  honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)

* 보다 : (1) see; watch; look (2) meet

* 보이다 : [passive form of 보다 by '-이-'] be seen

* 보여? : 보이(the stem of 보이다) + -여?(a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)

* 작은 : small
* 작게 : an adverb form of 작은 by '-게'
* 작다 : be small

* a verb + -니? / -나? / -냐? / -은가? / -어? : a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix
* a verb +  -나? / -은가? / -어? + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb +  -습니까? / -ㅂ니까? : an honourific interrgative verb ending suffix by ‘-스-‘ / ‘-ㅂ’

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