Where does “-다” come from?

-다 (Middle Korean) comes from Old Korean 如 — declarative mood sentence-final verbal suffix.

-다 (Middle Korean): declarative mood sentence-final verbal suffix

Definitions

  1. declarative mood sentence-final verbal suffix

Ancestry of “-다”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Korean如declarative mood sentence-final verbal suffix

Words derived from “-다”

Every word from Old Korean 如 →