-슴다

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Korean

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Etymology

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Contraction of 습니다 (-seumnida).

Suffix

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슴다 (-seumda)

  1. (colloquial) Colloquial version of 습니다 (seumnida), a declarative suffix in the 하십시오체 (hasipsioche, “formal polite”) speech level.
  2. (Northern Hamgyong, Yanbian, Yukjin) the declarative suffix in the 하십시오체 (hasipsioche, “formal polite”) speech level.
    • 2013, 김선희, 연변 방언 연구 조사와 종결어미를 중심으로, Korean Language and Literature Society, page 8:
      슴다. (Yanbian)
      Na-du watseumda.
      I've also come.

Usage notes

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In parts of Hamgyong and Yanbian, this 슴다 (-seumda) form essentially replaces 습니다 (-seumnida) as the declarative suffix in the formal polite speech level. Also, among younger Yukjin speakers both in Yanbian and North Korea it seems to be replacing the traditional 슴둥 (-seumdung) and 슴두 (-seumdu) suffixes.