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즐거워하다: Vocabulary #442
Example Sentences
- 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.
- 였 is a past tense marker.
- 습니다 is a formal polite ending used in declarative sentences.
Footnotes
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Sentence from The Stonecutter Journey Story. ↩
즐거워하다: Vocabulary #442
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