2023-04-05

Let' learn about "눈이 참 이쁘네요"

눈이 참 예쁘네요 : You have beautiful eyes / You have gorgeous eyes / What beautiful eyes you have! / I get lost in your eyes / Your eyes are mesmerizing

[other expressions]
- 눈이 참 예쁘다. (to younger people or friends)
- 눈이 참 예쁘네. (to younger people or friends)
- 눈이 참 예뻐. (to younger people or friends)
- 눈이 참 예쁘군! (to younger people or friends)
- 눈이 참 예쁘구나! (to younger people or friends)
- 눈이 참 예쁘네요. (honourific by '요')
- 눈이 참 예쁘군요! (honourific by '요')
- 눈이 참 예뻐요. (honourific by '요')
- 눈이 참 예쁩니다. (formal; honourific by '-ㅂ‘)

[explanations]
* 너 : you (non-honourific word)
* 언니 : a woman is elder than a woman
* -의 : a particle makes 너 / 언니 possesive

* 눈 : eye
* -이 : a suffix makes 눈 subjective after a word ends in a consonant

* 참 = 정말 / 정말로 : so much; really

* 예쁘다 : be beautiful; be pretty
* 예쁜 : beautiful; pretty
* 예쁘게 : an adverb form of 예쁜
- 너 예쁘게 옷 입었구나! : You're dressed beautifully!

* 예뻐 : 예쁘(the stem of 예쁘다; 쁘 + -어 contracted into 뻐; 의 erased before 어) + -어(a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)
* 예쁩니다 : 예쁘(the stem of 예쁘다) + -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'

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