-거-

Alternative forms

 * Possibly:
 * Possibly:

Etymology
From.

Usage notes
This suffix is one of three Middle Korean suffixes which do not have a fixed underlying pitch, but assume the pitch of the preceding syllable. The two others are and the epenthetic vowel of.

is most often, but not exclusively, found with adjectives, intransitive verbs, and the copula. Transitive verbs usually take or  depending on vowel harmony, and this appears to have had largely the same meaning as. The most common explanation is that they were allomorphs of the same suffix, with the choice between the two largely determined by transitivity. However, others have suggested that the two suffixes had different meanings, with / having a stronger perfective sense.

Related terms
These are believed to have been derived from the suffix, but it is not clear to what extent Middle Korean speakers still saw them as multiple suffixes rather than as single fully grammaticalized suffixes.