스럽다
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Grammar · 1 sense
-like, -ish, -ly
Examples
강아지가 너무 사랑스럽게 웃어요.
The puppy smiles in such a lovable way.
선생님이 너무 촌스러워요.
The teacher is so old-fashioned.
When you'd hear it
스럽다 is common in everyday speech and writing, especially in adjectives such as 사랑스럽다 and 촌스럽다. Its adverbial form 스럽게 appears when describing how someone does something, as in 사랑스럽게 웃다.
What learners get wrong
스럽다 forms an adjective meaning “having the quality of” a noun, while 답다 more often means “characteristic of” or “worthy of” that noun. Also, 스럽다 changes to 스러운 before a noun and 스럽게 before an action or description.
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