“That’s REALLY impressive!” - expressing remarkable size in Korean
Here are a bunch of words that can help to grow your vocabulary when expressing the size, degree or ability of something. You now won’t need to only say 진짜, 아주, 매우, 너무 at everything now:
대단하다 - amazing, impressive (usually used to talk about a person’s ability, achievements, skills, efforts etc)
굉장하다 - amazing/spectacular in appearance or degree
엄청나다 - really large in size, scale, quantity, impact etc
굉장히 크다 - remarkably large in size
거대하다 - remarkably large in size
어마어마하다 - enormous, EXTREMELY LARGE (in size, scale, quantity)
[Sample sentences under the cut]
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Notes:
As these words already indicate the large scale or size of the verb/adjective/noun they are attached to, you don’t need to add ‘아주, 매우, 진짜’ or other related words to emphasise the size even more.
The adverb version of 굉장하다 is 굉장히 and you will hear this a lot in spoken conversation - it is often added before a verb or adjective to express that the verb or adjective is really large in size, for example:
나는 굉장히 놀랐어! - I was extremely surprised!
굉장히 기뻐요 - I’m immensely happy
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Summary
굉장히 크다, 거대하다 and 어마어마하다 are only used to express a really large physical size
굉장하다 and 엄청나다 are used to express physical size, quantity AND abstract things such as skills, ability, determination, effort, impact etc.
대단하다 is only really used to express wonder at someone’s amazing characteristics
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