내 성격 많이 죽었어요 : I’ve grown soft; I’ve gone soft; I’m not as tough as I used to be; I’m turning into a softy.
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A. 네가 그 사람을 그렇게 봐주다니 놀랐어 : I’m surprised you let him get away with that.
B. 나도 내가 어떻게 된 건지 모르겠어. 성격 많이 죽었지 : I don’t know what’s happened to me. I’m turning into a softy
[other expressions]
- 내 성격 많이 죽었다. (to younger people or friends)
- 내 성격 많이 죽었네. (to younger people or friends)
- 내 성격 많이 죽었어. (to younger people or friends)
- 제 성격 많이 죽었네요. (honourific by '요')
- 제 성격 많이 죽었어요. (honourific by '요')
- 제 성격 많이 죽었습니다. (formal; more honourific by '스‘)
[explanations]
* 내 : I (non-honourific word)
* 제 : I (honourific word)
* -의 : a particle makes 내 / 제 possesive
* 성격 : [性格] [Pronunciation: 성껵] character; personality
* 이 : a particle makes 성격 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a consonant
* 많이 : so much; so many
* 죽다 : ( (1) [=사망하다] die; pass away[on]; be gone; pop off (the hooks); [=목숨을 잃다] meet one's end[death]; lose one's life; kick one's bucket; be killed; perish; [=생을 마치다] close one's day[life]; end one's career; [=저승으로 가다] leave this world; go to the better world; join the majority; sleep the eternal[final] sleep; [=자살하다] kill oneself; commit suicide; take one's own life (2) [=기가 약해지다] get deflated[crestfallen / downcast / out of spirits]; have the blues; be depressed; be (down) in the dumps (3) [=초목이 죽다] wither; die; perish; be dead; [서리 등으로] be blasted (4) [=풀기가 약해지다] lost its starch; wilt (5) [=불이 꺼지다] die out; go out (6) [=동작이 멎다] run down; stop (7) [성격이 순해지다] get soft; turn into soft
* 죽었다 : past tense of 죽다 by '-었-'
* 죽었습니다 : 죽었(the stem of 죽었다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)
* a verb + -다 / -네 / -어 / -아 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -네 / -어 / -아 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb + -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '스-' / '-ㅂ'
* 봐주다 : a short form of 보아주다 <-- 보다(see; look) + -아(a connection suffix between two verbs) + 주다(give)
* 보아주다 : (1) [=도와 주다] give a helping hand ; deliver out of ; [=돌보아 주다] look[see] after; take care of (2) [=눈감아 주다] over look; wink at; turn a blind eye to
- 어린아이를 봐주다 : nurse a baby / baby-sit
- 내 아이의 산수를 좀 봐주십시오 : Please help my child with his arithmetic
- 내가 없는 동안 집의 아이를 봐주십시오 : Please look after[watch (over)] my little son in my absence.
- 부정 행위를 봐주다 : wink at[turn a blind eye to] dishonest acts
- 제발 이번만 봐주십시오 : Please let it pass[go] just this once
- 네 고집은 우리밖에 봐줄 사람이 없다 : Your willfulness will not be tolerated by anyone but us
* 봐주다니 : 봐주(the stem of 봐주다) + -다니
* -다니 : (1) A sentence-final ending used to ask again or admire an unexpected fact in surprise (2) An expression used to indicate that the speaker is surprised or impressed by the explanation or statement heard
* 놀라다 : surprise; frighten; astonish; ambush
* 놀랐다 : past tense of 놀라다 by '-았-'
* 어떻게 된 건지 모르겠다 : 어떻게 되다(come to an end; what happen to someone) + -ㄴ 건지 모르겠다(I don't know that ~)
* 된 : past tense of form of 되다 by '-ㄴ'; this is attributive form before a noun)
* 건지 : a short form of 것인지
* 것인지 : 것 + -이다 + -ㄴ지(whether ... or)
* 모르다 : don't know
* 모르겠다 : 모르(the stem of 모르다) + -겠(one's conjecture) + -다(a descriptive basic verb ending)
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