서양화는 이해하기 어려워요 : Western paintings are hard to understand; Western art is too abstract and abstruse; Western art is hard to follow; It’s hard to understand Western paintings.
* 추상적인 : abstract
* 난해한 / 심오한 : abstruse
ex)
A. 서양화 좋아해요? : Do you appreciate Western art?
B. 아뇨, 제가 이해하기엔 너무 어려워요. 너무 추상적이고 난해해요 : No. For me, it’s just too hard to understand. It’s too abstract and abstruse
[other expressions]
- 서양화는 이해하기가 어렵다. (to younger people or friends)
- 서양화는 이해하기가 어렵네. (to younger people or friends)
- 서양화는 이해하기가 어려워. (to younger people or friends)
- 서양화는 이해하기가 어렵네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 서양화는 이해하기가 어려워요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 서양화는 이해하기가 어렵습니다. (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)
[explanations]
* 서양화 : [西洋化] westernization; Europeanization
* 서양화하다 : become westernized; westernize; Europeanize
* 서양화 : [西洋畵] (a) Western[European] painting; (an) oil painting
- 서양 화가 : an artist of Western painting; an oil painter
* -는 : a particle makes 서양화 subhjective after a word ends in a vowel
* 이해 : [理解] understanding; comprehension
* 이해하다 : understand; comprehend; apprehend; appreciate; make out
* 이해하기 : an noun form of 이해하다 by '-기'
* -가/-는 : a particle makes 이해하기 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a vowel; this omitted
* 어려운 : (1) (이해하거나 해결하기가) difficult, hard (2) [=힘들고 곤란하다] hard, difficult, tough (3) 형편·생활 등이) (financially) difficult, poor, needy
* 어렵다 : a verb form of 어려운
* 어려워 : 어렵(the stem of 어렵다; ㅂ changed into 우) + -어(a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)
* ㅂ 불규칙 : the ㅂ of 어렵다 is not 'B' sound but 'V' sound and V consists of ㅂ + 옛이응 ‘ㆁ’. these days V sound changed into '우' for easy pronunciation
* See : https://m.blog.naver.com/nurisejong/221050681781
* 어렵습니다 : 어렵(the stem of 어렵다) + 스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)
* a verb + -네 / -어 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -어 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb + -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by ‘-습-‘ / '-ㅂ'
* -를 : a particle makes 서양화 objective after a word ends in a vowel; this omitted
* 좋아하다 : like
* 좋아해요? : 좋아하(the stem of 좋아하다; 하 + -어 contracted into 해) + -어?(an interrogative verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 아니다 : be not
* 아뇨 : a short form of 아니요
* 아니요 : 아니(the stem of 아니다) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 내 : I (non-honourific word)
* 제 : I (honourific word)
* -가 : a particle makes 내 / 제 subjective after a word ends in a vowel
* 이해하기엔 : 이해하기 + -엔(a short form of 에는)
* -에는 : A postpositional particle used to emphasize the criterion for one's judgment
* 너무 : too much
* 어려워요 : 어려워(be difficult) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 추상 : [抽象] abstraction
* 추상적이다 : be abstract
* 추상적(인) : abstract
* 추상적으로 : abstractly
- 사물을 추상적으로 생각하다 : consider things in the abstract[abstractly]
- 그는 다만 추상적으로 말했을 뿐이다 : He was only talking in abstract[general] terms
* 추상적이고 : 추상적이(the stem of 추상적이다) + -고(and)
* 난해 : [難解] being difficult to understand
* 난해한 : difficult to understand; hard to make out; knotty; unintelligible; abstruse
* 난해하다 : be difficult to understand; be hard to make out; be knotty; be unintelligible; be abstruse
- 난해한 글 : a difficult passage / an article hard to understand
- 난해한 문제 : a difficult problem[question] / a knotty problem
- 본문 중의 난해한 곳 : a textual crux
- 난해한 작가 : a recondite author
- 그 논문에는 난해한 부분이 몇 군데 있다 : There are several puzzling passages in that thesis
- 이것은 난해하다 : This is a puzzle[riddle]
- 헨리 제임스의 소설은 난해하다 : Henry James's novels are hard reading
* 난해해요 : 난해하(the stem of 난해하다; 하 + -어 contracted into 해) + -어(a descriptive verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
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