순하다

Korean

Etymology

순(順) (sun) + 하다 (hada, to do, light verb deriving adjectives).

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈsʰu(ː)nɦa̠da̠]
  • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)]
    • Though still prescriptive in Standard Korean, the great majority of speakers (in both Koreas) no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sunhada
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sunhada
McCune–Reischauer?sunhada
Yale Romanization?swūn.hata

Adjective

순하다 (sunhada) (infinitive 순해 or 순하여, sequential 순하니)

  1. (to be) mild, gentle
  2. (to be) docile
    2012, Kyubyong Park, Learner's Korean-English Dictionary, Tuttle Publishing, page 283:
    아기 순하.
    I agineun cham sunhaneyo.
    This baby is so docile.
  3. (to be) mild, light
    순한 담배sunhan dambaemild cigarettes

Conjugation

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