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May 27, 2007

쓰다

Filed under: Vocabulary

There are many different 쓰다 in Korean.

Let’s take a look.

If you don’t have much vocabulary, you many need a dictionary because I’m not going to translate everything here.

I thought that it must be better to make you study somehow.

1. 쓰다 use, spend

  • 전화를 쓰다, 인터넷을 하기 위해 컴퓨터를 쓰다
  • 돈을 쓰다, 인쇄하기 위해서 종이를 쓰다
  • 반말을 쓰다, 사투리를 쓰다, 존댓말을 쓰다
  • 사람을 쓰다, 일이 많아서 아르바이트를 쓰다
  • 다리를 쓰다, 머리를 쓰다, 교통사고로 한 쪽 다리를 못 쓰게 되다
  • 신경을 쓰다, 마음을 쓰다, 애를 쓰다
  • 억지를 쓰다, 떼를 쓰다

2. 쓰다 write, compose

  • 종이에 글씨를 쓰다
  • 시를 쓰다, 소설을 쓰다

3. 쓰다 wear

  • 모자를 쓰다
  • 우산을 쓰다
  • 가면을 쓰다, 마스크를 쓰다
  • 안경을 쓰다
  • 누명을 쓰다

4. 쓰다 bitter

  • 약이 쓰다
  • 감기에 걸려서 입맛이 쓰다 (In this case, it doesn’t have to be the bitterness, you just lost your apetite)

2 Comments »

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  1. Thank you clarifying the various meanings of 쓰다.
    It looks like for 1, 2 and 3 쓰다 is used as verb and for 4 it is used as adjective. Am I right?
    If so, it will be 써요 for 1, 2 and 3 polite informal form? And what will it be for no. 4?
    We can also change it to nonce as 씀 or 쓴 것?

    Comment by canei — May 27, 2007 @ 10:18 am

  2. Yes, Canei. You are right.
    1.2.3 are verbs while 4 is an adjective.

    동사: 써요, 썼다, 쓰는/쓴, 쓰니, 쓸, 쓰면
    형용사: 써요, 썼다, 쓴, 쓰니, 쓸, 쓰면

    Here are more examples with inflected forms.

    이 약은 쓰다.
    쓴 약
    나는 일기를 쓴다.
    혜영(my name) 씀
    혜영이가 쓴 글
    혜영이가 쓴 것
    글쓰기
    글을 쓰는 것은 어렵다

    Comment by dreamer — May 27, 2007 @ 1:02 pm

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