-스무니다

Korean

Etymology

A stereotypical Japanese mispronunciation of the formal polite declarative verbal suffix 습니다 (-seumnida), as Japanese lacks coda /-m/.

See also Chinese 思密達／思密达 (sīmìdá), Japanese ニダ (nida), Japanese and Chinese equivalents towards Koreans.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [s͈ɯmunida̠]
• Phonetic hangul: [쓰무니다]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	seumunida
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	seumunida
McCune–Reischauer?	ssŭmunida
Yale Romanization?	qsumunita

Suffix

스무니다 • (-seumunida)

1. (sometimes offensive) Alternative form of 습니다 (-seumnida) used to denote that the person speaking is Japanese.

   Coordinate term: 해 (-hae, “steoretypical suffix for Chinese”)