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즐거워하다: Vocabulary #442

Example Sentences#

  1. 그는 강한 힘을 느끼며 즐거워했습니다.1
    He felt joy as he experienced the strong power.
    • 즐거워하다 means ‘to be pleased’ or ‘to be delighted’. It is derived from the adjective 즐겁다 (to be joyful) using the pattern -어하다, which transforms adjectives into verbs to describe the feeling or perception of an emotion from an external viewpoint.
    • is a past tense marker.
    • 습니다 is a formal polite ending used in declarative sentences.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from The Stonecutter Journey Story.

즐거워하다: Vocabulary #442
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/vocabulary/즐거워하다/
Author
Korean Story Lab
Published at
2026-03-19
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