Example Sentences#

1. “아이가 호랑이를 무서워하지 않네?”¹
   “Oh, the baby isn’t scared of the tiger?”
   • 무서워하다 means ‘to be scared of’. It is derived from the adjective 무섭다 (to be scary) using the pattern -어하다, which transforms adjectives into verbs to describe the feeling or perception of an emotion from an external viewpoint.
   • -지 않다 is a negation pattern, with 지 attached to the verb stem and 않다 as an auxiliary verb for negation.
2. “호랑이도 안 무서워하는 아기가 곶감은 무서워하네?¹
   “So a baby who isn’t even scared of a tiger is afraid of a dried persimmon?
   • 무서워하다 means ‘to be scared of’. It is derived from the adjective 무섭다 (to be scary) using the pattern -어하다, which transforms adjectives into verbs to describe the feeling or perception of an emotion from an external viewpoint.
   • -네 is a sentence-ending particle expressing mild surprise or discovery through direct observation, voicing the speaker’s immediate acknowledgment of something perceived in the moment.