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Prefixes
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  • 군-
    Superfluous, useless, extra
  • 날-
    Raw, uncooked, unprocessed
  • 맏-
    Eldest, first-born
  • 맞-
    Facing, mutual, counter-
  • 빗-
    Askew, off-target, wrongly
  • 새-
    Vivid, deep
  • 알-
    Bare, with the outer covering or shell removed
  • 암-
    Female, of animals
  • 엿-
    Secretly, sneakily
  • 외-
    Single, lone, or sole
  • 제-
    Its own, the very one
Suffixes
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  • ~가량
    Approximately ~, about ~
  • ~개국
    ~ countries, counter for nations
  • ~년대
    The ~s, decade
  • ~년도
    The year ~
  • ~년생
    Born in ~
  • ~번째
    ~th, ordinal marker
  • ~호실
    Room number ~
  • -감
    The material or makings for something, or a thing/person suited to a role
  • -개
    A tool for doing
  • -깔
    The state or underlying quality of something
  • -껏
    To the full extent of
  • -꾼
    A person who does something habitually or professionally
  • -내
    Throughout a period, or to the very end
  • -님
    Honorific suffix on names, titles, and kinship terms
  • -다랗다
    Makes an adjective vivid or emphatic, often translating as "very"
  • -돌이
    A man with a certain trait
  • -둥이
    An endearing suffix for a person/child with a quality
  • -렇다
    Makes a descriptive adjective vivid and distinct
  • -보
    A person given to a habit
  • -스럽다
    -ish, -like, giving off the feeling of
  • -씨
    The manner, disposition, or style of something
  • -씩
    By, apiece, at a rate of
  • -아지
    A small or young one, especially the young of an animal
  • -이
    Turns a stem into "the one/thing that does it"
  • -이/-히
    Turns adjectives into adverbs
  • -쟁이
    A person characterized by a trait, often mildly disparaging
  • -적
    -al, -ic, -ive
  • -질
    The act of doing something, often repeatedly, with a tool or body part
  • -짜리
    A thing of that value, size, or denomination
  • -째
    -th in order, for a duration, or whole
  • -치다
    With force
  • -희
    Plural personal-pronoun element