먹다
Jeju
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mək̚t͈a̠/
Verb
먹다 (meokda)
- to eat, to drink
- 밥을 먹다 ― bab-eul meokda ― to eat food
Verb
먹다 (meokda)
- to join
Korean
Etymology
First attested in the Worin cheon'gangjigok (月印千江之曲 / 월인천강지곡), 1449, as Middle Korean 먹다〮 (Yale: mèk-tá).
Pronunciation
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [mʌ̹k̚t͈a̠]
(file)
- Phonetic hangul: [먹따]
| Romanizations | |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization? | meokda |
| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | meogda |
| McCune–Reischauer? | mŏkta |
| Yale Romanization? | mekta |
Verb
| Base | 먹다 (meokda) |
|---|---|
| Causative | 먹이다 (meogida) |
| Passive | 먹히다 (meokhida) |
먹다 • (meokda) (infinitive 먹어, sequential 먹으니)
- to eat, drink, have, consume (food or liquid)
- 밥을 먹다 ― bab-eul meokda ― to eat food
- 아침은 먹었니?
- achim-eun meogeonni?
- Have you had your breakfast?
- 술을 먹다 ― sur-eul meokda ― to drink wine
- 그 여자는 그 음식을 좀 먹었다. 그런데 모두 먹기에는 그렇게 배고프지 않았다. 그래서 나중에 다 먹으려고 냉장고에 그것을 넣어 두었다.
- geu yeoja-neun geu eumsig-eul jom meogeotda. Geureonde modu meokgi-eneun geureoke baegopeuji anatda. Geuraeseo najung-e da meogeuryeogo naengjanggo-e geugeos-eul neo'eo dueotda.
- She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later.
- to pocket, embezzle, seize upon
- to receive, get
- to make up (one's mind), be determined
- to grow older
- 보기보다는 나이를 먹지 않다 ― bogiboda-neun nai-reul meokji anta ― to be not so old as one looks
- 나이 먹은 사람 ― nai meogeun saram ― a man of years
- (figuratively, slang, vulgar) to screw, fuck
- 어젯밤 여자친구를 먹었다.
- eojetbam yeojachin'gu-reul meogeotda.
- I fucked my girlfriend last night
Conjugation
Selected forms of the verb 먹다 (meokda): consonant-stem, regular
| Sentence-final forms | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formal non-polite (해라체) | Informal non-polite (해체) | Informal polite (해요체) | Formal polite (하십시오체) | ||
| Indicative | Non-past | 먹는다 meongneunda | 먹어 meogeo | 먹어요 meogeoyo | 먹습니다 meokseumnida |
| Past | 먹었다 meogeotda | 먹었어 meogeosseo | 먹었어요 meogeosseoyo | 먹었습니다 meogeotseumnida | |
| Interrogative | Non-past | 먹느냐 meongneunya | 먹어 meogeo | 먹어요 meogeoyo | 먹습니까 meokseumnikka |
| Past | 먹었느냐 meogeonneunya | 먹었어 meogeosseo | 먹었어요 meogeosseoyo | 먹었습니까 meogeotseumnikka | |
| Hortative | 먹자 meokja | 먹어 meogeo | 먹어요 meogeoyo | 먹읍시다 meogeupsida | |
| Imperative | 먹어라 meogeora | 먹어 meogeo | 먹어요 meogeoyo | 먹읍시오 meogeupsio | |
| Assertive | 먹겠다 meokgetda | 먹겠어 meokgesseo | 먹겠어요 meokgesseoyo | 먹겠습니다 meokgetseumnida | |
| Connective forms | |||||
| Cause/Reason | 먹어 meogeo | 먹어서 meogeoseo | 먹으니 meogeuni | 먹으니까 meogeunikka | |
| Contrast | 먹지만 meokjiman | 먹는데 meongneunde | 먹더니 meokdeoni | ||
| Conjunction | 먹고 meokgo | ||||
| Condition | 먹으면 meogeumyeon | 먹어야 meogeoya | |||
| Motive | 먹으려고 meogeuryeogo | ||||
| Noun and determiner forms | |||||
| Verbal nouns | 먹음 meogeum | 먹기 meokgi | |||
| Past-tense verbal nouns | 먹었음 meogeosseum | 먹었기 meogeotgi | |||
| Determiners | Past | 먹은 meogeun | |||
| Present | 먹는 meongneun | ||||
| Future | 먹을 meogeul | ||||
Honorific: 드시다 (deusida), 잡수시다 (japsusida)
Derived terms
(idioms):
- 까마귀 고기를 먹었나 (kkamagwi gogireul meogeonna)
(compounds):
- 먹거리 (meokgeori, “food”)
- 먹이 (meogi, “feed”)
- 먹새 (meoksae, “way of eating, appetite”)
- 먹성(性) (meokseong, “appetite”)
- 먹보 (meokbo, “glutton”)
- 먹사 (meoksa, “corrupt pastor”)
Related terms
- 머금다 (meogeumda, “to hold/keep something in one's mouth”)
- 마시다 (masida, “to drink”)