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춤추다: Vocabulary #526

2026-03-19
2026-05-31

Example Sentences#

  1. 너와 나, 웃으며 춤춰 봐1
    You and I, let’s smile and dance
    • 춤추다 means ‘to dance’, formed from 춤 (dance) and 추다 (to dance).
    • 어 is the connective form of the verb stem used in the -어 보다 pattern, which indicates attempting or trying to do something.
  2. 흐르는 바람 따라 춤추듯 가2
    Like I’m dancing with the flowing wind
    • 춤추다 is a compound verb formed from 춤 (dance) and 추다 (to dance), meaning ‘to dance’. It can also be used with the object marker as in 춤을 추다, where the object 춤 may be replaced with specific types of dances (e.g., 디스코를 추다) for clarity or specificity.
    • -듯(이) is a suffix that attaches to verbs to mean ‘as if’ or ‘like’, expressing similarity or likeness to the action.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from Blue Breeze Song. ↩

  2. Sentence from Like A Paper Boat Song. ↩

춤추다: Vocabulary #526
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/vocabulary/춤추다/
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Korean Story Lab
Published at
2026-03-19
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