-으사

Korean

Alternative forms
  • 사 (-sa) (after vowel-final and ㄹ (l)-final verbal stems)

Etymology

Of native Korean origin, from Middle Korean 으샤〮 (Yale: -usy-á), ᄋᆞ샤〮 (Yale: -osy-á).

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?eusa
Revised Romanization (translit.)?eusa
McCune–Reischauer?ŭsa
Yale Romanization?usa

Suffix

으사 • (-eusa)

  1. Archaic form of 으셔 (-eusyeo, contraction of 으시어 (-eusi-eo, “honorific infinitive”)).
    夫(부)子(자)ㅣ 溫(온)良(량)恭(공)儉(검)讓(양)하사 […]
    Bujae ollyanggonggyeomyang-hasa […]
    For the Master was humane, upright, courteous, temperate, and complaisant […]
    (from a traditional cantillation of the Analects)

Usage notes
  • This suffix has an epenthetical vowel and therefore provokes verbal irregularities in certain stems, e.g. 그립 (geurip-) > 그리우사 (geuriusa).
  • This suffix elides preceding ㄹ (l).
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