2023-05-11

Let's learn about "이 책은 너무 지루해요"

이 책은 너무 지루해요 : This book is so boring; This book is not interesting at all; This book is dull; This book puts me to sleep.

나는 이 책을 친구들한테 절대 추천하지 않을 거야 : I will never recommend this book to my friends

* 단조롭고 지루한 / 재미없는 : dull

* A를/을 재우다 : put A to sleep

ex)

A. 이 책 정말 지루해. 게다가 2천 페이지나 된다고! : This book is dull. And it’s 2,000 pages long!

B. 뒤로 갈수록 괜찮아져. 거기까지 네가 읽을 수 있을지는 모르겠지만 : It gets better towards the end if you can manage to make it that far

[other expressions]
- 이 책은 너무 지루하다. (to younger people or friends)
- 이 책은 너무 지루하네. (to younger people or friends)
- 이 책은 너무 지루해. (to younger people or friends)
- 이 책은 너무 지루하군! (to younger people or friends)
- 이 책은 너무 지루하구나! (to younger people or friends)
- 이 책은 너무 지루하네요. (honourific by '요')
- 이 책은 너무 지루하군요! (honourific by '요')
- 이 책은 너무 지루해요. (honourific by '요')
- 이 책은 너무 지루합니다. (formal; honourific by '-ㅂ‘)

[explanations]
* 이 : this

* 책 : [冊] a book; a volume; [=작품] a work; [=읽을 거리] reading
* -은 : a particle makes 이 책 subjective after a word ends in a consonant

* 너무 : too much; so much

* 지루한 : tedious; bored,; boring; drear; tiresome; tiring; aweary: weary
* 지루하다 : be boring; be not interesting; be dull
* 지루하게 : an adverb form of 지루한 by '-게'

* 지루해 : 지루하(the stem of 지루하다; 하 + -어 contracted into 해) + -어(a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)
* 지루합니다 : 지루하(the stem of 지루하다) + -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'

* 게다가 : [=거기에 더하여] in addition to ; on top of ; what is more; [=그리고 또한] moreover; besides; [=설상가상으로] to make matters worse
- 게다가 요리도 맛있었다 : In addition to that, the food was delicious
- 여관 안주인은 매우 친절했고 게다가 미인이었다 :!The landlady was very kind, and what's more, she was a beauty
- 게다가 그는 덜렁이다 : Besides[More over / On top of that] he is a hasty fellow
- 게다가 큰 비가 쏟아지기 시작했다 : To make matters worse, it began to rain heavily
- 게다가 나는 50만 원의 상금까지 받았다 : In addition I received a prize of five hundred thousand won
- 그는 낭비가 심하다. 게다가 제멋대로다 : On top of being extravagant, he's selfish as well
- 게다가 이까지 쑤시기 시작했다 : Moreover [Besides], my tooth began to ache

* -나 되다 : It's ... long; It's ... wide
* -나 : A postpositional particle used to indicate that the amount of something is larger than expected, or to emphasize a large amount; [=정도] as many[much] as; no less[fewer] than; as long[far] as
* 되다 : (1) [=…에 이르다] come to; amount to; make (2) <동사적 명사에 붙어(attached to a verbistic noun)> be; become; get to be

* 된다고 : 된다(present form of 되다) + -고(A sentence-final ending usually used when answering, omitting the question that should follow and finishing the sentence)

* 뒤로 가다 : (1) go behind (2) toward the end in book or paper

* 갈수록 : More and more in degree over time; 가(the stem of 가다) + -ㄹ 수록/을 수록/를 수록(A connective ending used to imply that as the extent of the preceding statement becomes larger, that of the following statement also changes accordingly)
- 빠르면 빠를 수록 : As soon as possible

* 괜찮다 : [Pronunciation: 괜찬타] nice; good; not so bad; passable; fair; fine
* 괜찮아지다 : passive form of 괜찮다 by '-아지다'; get better
* 괜찮아져 : 괜찮아지(the stem of 괜찮아지다) + -여(a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* 거기까지 : that far
- 됐어! 거기까지 : That's enough

* 읽을 수 있을 지는 모르겠지만 : 읽다(read) + -을 수 있다(can; be able to do) + -을 지(whether ...or) + -는(a suffix emphasizes -을 지) + -모르다 + -겠(one's conjecture) + -지만(A connective ending used to recognize the truth of the preceding statement and add facts that are the opposite of it or different)
- 그렇지만 : but, however, nevertheless; A word used to say something opposed to the preceding statement; although it is true
- 하지만 : but; however; A word used to connect two statements that are opposite in meaning to each other

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