-슴

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See also:
U+C2B4, 슴
HANGUL SYLLABLE SEUM
Composition: + +

[U+C2B3]
Hangul Syllables
[U+C2B5]

Korean

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Etymology

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Perhaps from Early Modern Korean ᄉᆞᆸ (-seup, declarative suffix of similar formal and polite meaning).

Suffix

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(-seum)

  1. (Yukjin, Hamgyong, parts of Pyongan, Russia) In the formal polite style, the chief declarative suffix.
    Synonym: (Standard Korean) 습니다 (-seumnida)
    • 2016 September 8, 곽응호 [gwageungho], “한국인의 밥상 ‘카레이스키의 아리랑’ [han'guginui bapsang - ‘kareiseukiui arirang’]”, in KBC다큐 [KBCdakyu]‎[1], 카자흐스탄 [kajaheuseutan]:
      원동에서
      na-neu wondong-eseo natseum
      I was born in the Russian Far East.