"닦아!"
Translation:Wipe!
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Why not "brush"? as in brushing your teeth? Me: Brush your teeth kids. Kids: No! Me: Brush your teeth, please. Kids: No! Me: 닦아!
Sometimes I hear Koreans use the 어 conjugation instead of the 아 (for example : "닦어 !", with even by the way a ㄸ sound instead of the single ㄷ). Is there an explanation, or is it only an oral way to conjugate such verbs ?
Huh. Using Korean for all my life I never thought about it. But it is surely an oral thing because 닦어 is easier to pronounce than 닦아. As for ㄷ being ㄸ, it may be to emphasize or make it sound stronger.
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It's a transitive verb in Korean, so I guess it should at the very least be "Wipe {it/them}." It's about wiping something, not so much the motion or people use onomatopoeia like 삭, at least as the Japanese have it.
(Without the object, outside of generalizations, verbs start to have a reflexive quality in English, "Wipe (somewhere on) yourself." It's still not quite the formal Latin grammar in dictionaries though -- it must be the Germanic roots. Or even properly intransitive which is where you get 'wipeout' (넘어짐/넘어지기?) or 'wipe out' (넘어져?) that apparently spread from surfers . . .)
No. To clean (청소- you can also use this term as a noun to say "chores") and to wipe (닦아) are different verbs.
Wipe is the more specific response. For example you can say "clean your room" but you wouldn't say "wipe your room".
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I thought he was telling me to get out I was like why is this application kicking me out lol ( is it spelled 나가?)
Well, it's not very polite. It's a type of thing that a parent would say to their child maybe ib a scolding manner. You would probably say 닦아 줘(casual) or 닦아 주세요(formal, polite).
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The hint literally only says "brush" and it's marked as wrong. Reported. How are these issues still around??