Let's learn about "배고파 죽겠어요"

배고파 죽겠어요 : I’m so hungry; I’m starving here; I’m starving to death

* 몹시 배고프다 : starve

[other expressions]

- 배고파 죽겠다. (to younger people or friends)

- 배고파 죽겠네. (to younger people or friends)

- 배고파 죽겠어. (to younger people or friends)

- 배고파 죽겠군! (to younger people or friends)

- 배고파 죽겠구나! (to younger people or friends)

- 배고파 죽겠네요. (honourific by '요')

- 배고파 죽겠군요. (honourific by '요')

- 배고파 죽겠어요. (honourific by '요')

- 배고파 죽겠습니다. (formal; more honourific by '-스')

[explanations]

* 몹시 : [=대단히] very (much); exceedingly; excessively; extremely; greatly; immensely; terribly; highly

* 배고픈 : hungry

* 배고프다 : be hungry <-- 배(stomach; belly) + -고프다(hungry; famished)

- 배가 고프다 : be hungry / feel[get] hungry

* 배고파 : (1) 배고프(the stem of 배고프다; 프 + -아 contracted into  파) + -아(a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix) (2) 배고프(the stem of 배고프다; 프 + -아 contracted into  파) + -아(a connection suffix between two verbs)

* 죽겠다 : 죽(the stem of 죽다) + -겠(ones's conjecture) + -다(a non-honourific basic verb ending suffix)

* -겠- : [어미:Ending of a Word] (1) 미래의 일이나 추측을 나타내는 어미.(An ending of a word referring to a future event or assumption) (2) 말하는 사람의 의지를 나타내는 어미(An ending of a word referring to the speaker's will) (3) 가능성이나 능력을 나타내는 어미(An ending of a word indicates possibility or ability)

- [추측] 그 사람 오늘 오겠지 = 그 사람 오늘 올 거야 : He'll be here today

- [의지] 제가 하겠습니다 : I'll do it

- [가능성] 그런 것은 삼척동자도 알겠다 : Everybody know that

- [능력] 이걸 어떻게 혼자 다 하겠니? = 이건 혼자 할 수 없어 : How can I do this all by myself

* 죽겠습니다 : 죽(the stem of 죽다) + -겠(ones's conjecture) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -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'