"방이 춥습니다."
Translation:The room is cold.
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I kept getting cold confused with small when doing and redoing this lesson, it turns out it is because they look so similar and Duolingo's pronunciations are so similar! Cold starts with 춥 and small starts with 좁. Easy to miss if you're not paying attention.
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Is a room not an object? You mean cold regarding atmosphere? As opposed to something literally being cold to touch?
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I'm not sure about that, because there's this example in the NAVER English-Korean dictionary under 차갑다: 차가운 날씨 / cold weather.
차갑다 - is when is something cold to the touch or when you know something it's cold
Like - The food is cold. This tea is cold. Go take a cold shower.
AND it's used only for OBJECTS. Native speakers probably wouldn't understand you if you describe weather with it.
춥다 - is used when your talking about weather, tempature in some room or how you fell
Like - It's cold today. The classroom is so cold. I'm cold.
Same is for 뜨겁다 and 덥다
뜨겁다 - something is hot to touch or you now it's hot.
Like - Careful the water is hot! or The food is hot.
덥다 - is about weather, tempature or how you feel.
Like - I'm hot. or It's too hot in here
I find it helpful to differentiate between 춥다 and 촙다 is that 춥다 is cold because "ㅜ" looks like an arrow pointing down (as the temperature is going down), hence, narrow/cramped is 촙다 :)
