순하다

Korean

Etymology

순(順) (sun) +‎ 하다 (hada, “to do”, light verb deriving adjectives).

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈsʰu(ː)nɦa̠da̠]
  • Phonetic hangul: [순(ː)하다]
    • Though still prescriptive in Standard Korean, the great majority of speakers (in both Koreas) no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?sunhada
Revised Romanization (translit.)?sunhada
McCune–Reischauer?sunhada
Yale Romanization?swūn.hata

Adjective

순하다 • (sunhada) (infinitive 순해 or 순하여, sequential 순하니)

  1. (to be) mild, gentle
  2. (to be) docile
    2012, Kyubyong Park, Learner's Korean-English Dictionary, Tuttle Publishing, page 283:
    이 아기는 참 순하네요.
    I agineun cham sunhaneyo.
    This baby is so docile.
  3. (to be) mild, light
    순한 담배 ― sunhan dambae ― mild cigarettes

Conjugation

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