-느니

Suffix

 * 1) rather;

Usage notes

 * causes stem-final to drop out.
 * Only used for verbs without tense marking, and for the existential adjectives, , and.

Suffix

 * 1) saying... and saying...;

Usage notes

 * Colloquially, is used instead.
 * causes stem-final to drop out.
 * is used for all verbs, for the existential adjectives, , and , and for adjectives with tense marking with and.
 * is used for adjectives without tense marking.

Etymology 3
a general-purpose declarative and interrogative suffix of a middling level of deference.

In Middle Korean, this suffix is formally identical to, a "durative" aspect-marking suffix indicating continuous action or timeless fact. Said suffix is etymologically from + : "to be that..." .

The traditional analysis is that this suffix is in fact fully identical to the durative suffix, with the expected formality- and mood-marking suffixes that should follow it being omitted due to the reduced degree of formality. However, it has been argued that this analysis is strange from the perspective of Korean grammar, and that there is in fact a formality-marking suffix which merges with  due to the shared vowel.

Before verbs, the suffix now takes, from 🇨🇬 , originally a Middle Korean present-tense suffix now attached generally to verbs (or tense-marking suffixes derived from verbs) in many grammaticalized suffixes. See Usage notes below.

Usage notes

 * causes stem-final to drop out.
 * is used for all verbs, for the existential adjectives, , and , and for adjectives with tense marking with and.
 * is used for adjectives without tense marking.