Diminish in Korean 🇰🇷

감소하다 info.

Tips to Remember:
• Break it down into two parts: "감소" (gamso) means "decrease/diminish" and "하다" (hada) means "to do." Think of it as “to do decreasing.”
• The sound “gamso” can remind you of “gone,” as in something being gone or reduced.
• Connect it with similar English words like “reduce” to recall that it refers to lessening.

Explanations:
• 감소하다 is a verb meaning "to diminish" or "to decrease." It is used when describing a reduction in quantity, amount, or intensity.
• The word is composed of the noun 감소 (gamso, “decrease”) plus 하다 (hada, “to do”), a common construction in Korean to form verbs.
• In context, it is applied to phenomena like population, prices, or resources diminishing over time.

Other Words with Similar Meanings:
• 줄이다 (julida) – “to reduce” or “to cut down”
• 낮아지다 (naj-ajida) – “to get lower” in terms of intensity or level

Conjugations of 감소하다 (gamsohada):
• Dictionary (Infinitive) form: 감소하다 (gamsohada)

Present Tense:
 – Informal polite: 감소해요 (gamsohaeyo)
 – Formal polite: 감소합니다 (gamsohamnida)

Past Tense:
 – Informal polite: 감소했어요 (gamsohaesseoyo)
 – Formal polite: 감소했습니다 (gamsohaetseumnida)

Future Tense:
 – Informal polite: 감소할 거예요 (gamsohal geoyeyo)
 – Formal polite: 감소할 것입니다 (gamsohal geos-ibnida)

Additional Conjugations:
• Present Progressive: 감소하고 있어요 (gamsohago isseoyo) meaning “is diminishing.”
• Negative Form (present, informal): 감소하지 않아요 (gamsohaji anayo) meaning “does not diminish.”

Example Sentences:
1. The number of students has diminished.
 – 학생 수가 감소했어요.
 – Romanization: Haksaeng su-ga gamsohaesseoyo.

2. Pollution in the city will decrease because of new policies.
 – 도시의 오염이 새로운 정책 때문에 감소할 거예요.
 – Romanization: Dosi-ui oyeom-i saeroun jeongchaeg ttaemune gamsohal geoyeyo.

3. Over time, the prices gradually diminish.
 – 시간이 지남에 따라 가격이 감소해요.
 – Romanization: Shigani jinam-e ttala gaggagi gamsohaeyo.

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