2023-10-18

Let's learn about "빵이 오래됐어요"

빵이 오래됐어요 : The bread is not so fresh; The bread is not freshly baked; The bread is stale

[other expressions]
- 빵이 오래됐다. (to younger people or friends)
- 빵이 오래됐네. (to younger people or friends)
- 빵이 오래됐어. (to younger people or friends)
- 빵이 오래됐군! (to younger people or friends)
- 빵이 오래됐구나! (to younger people or friends)
- 빵이 오래됐네요. (honourific by '요')
- 빵이 오래됐군요. (honourific by '요')
- 빵이 오래됐어요. (honourific by '요')
- 빵이 오래됐습니다. (formal; more honourific by '스-')

[explanations]
* 빵 : bread
* -이 : a particle makes 빵 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a consonant

* 오랜 : [=시간이 많이 지난] a long time has passed
- 오랜 세월 : many years

* 오래 : long; (for) a long time
- 시간은 오래 걸리지 않을 것이다 : It will not take long
* 되다 : become

* 오래되다 : [=지나거나 묵힌 동안이 오래다] it's long past; be old <-- 오래 + 되다

* 오래됐다 : a short form of 오래되었다
* 오래되었다 : past tense of 오래되다 by '-었-'

* 오래됐습니다 : 오래됐(the stem of 오래됐다)  + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '-ㅂ')

* 않았습니다 : 않았(the stem of 않았다)  + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '-ㅂ')

* a verb + -ㄴ다 / -다 / -네 / -어 / -아 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -군! / -구나! / -는군! / -는구나! : a non-honourific exclamatory verb ending suffix
* a verb + -네 / -어 / -아 / -군! / -는군! + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb +  -습니다 / -십니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '스-' / '시-' / '-ㅂ'

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