Get dirty in Korean 🇰🇷

더러워지다 info.

Tips to Remember:
• Notice that 더러워지다 comes from the adjective 더럽다 (meaning “dirty”) combined with the suffix -어지다, which indicates a change of state (“to become”). Think of it as “더럽다 (dirty) → 더러워지다 (to become dirty).”
• The “어지다” ending helps you remember that it’s about a process of change, so when you see similar verbs like 변하다 (“to change”), you can relate the idea.

Explanations:
• 더러워지다 means “to get dirty” or “to become dirty.” It describes the process of something becoming unclean.
• It is a descriptive verb that emphasizes the change from a clean state to a dirty state.

Other Words with Similar Meanings:
• 더럽혀지다 (deoreop-hyeojida) – also means “to become dirty” or “to be soiled,” though it can carry a slightly stronger negative nuance regarding moral or physical dirtiness.
• 지저분해지다 (jijeobun-haejida) – means “to get messy” or “to become untidy.”

Conjugations:
Base (Infinitive): 더러워지다 (deoreowo-jida)

Present:
• Informal low: 더러워져 (deoreowo-juh)
• Formal polite: 더러워져요 (deoreowo-jeyo)
• Declarative informal high: 더러워진다 (deoreowo-jinda)

Past:
• Informal low: 더러워졌어 (deoreowo-jyeosseo)
• Formal polite: 더러워졌어요 (deoreowo-jyeoseoyo)
• Declarative informal high: 더러워졌다 (deoreowo-jyeotda)

Future:
• Informal low: 더러워질 거야 (deoreowo-jil geoya)
• Formal polite: 더러워질 거예요 (deoreowo-jil geoyeyo)
• Declarative informal high: 더러워질 것이다 (deoreowo-jil geosida)

Progressive:
• Present progressive informal low: 더러워지고 있어 (deoreowo-jigo isseo)
• Present progressive formal polite: 더러워지고 있어요 (deoreowo-jigo isseoyo)

Examples of Sentences:
1. 내 옷이 비에 젖어서 더러워졌어요.
(nae ot-i bie jeoj-eoseo deoreowo-jyeoseoyo)
“My clothes got dirty because they got wet in the rain.”

2. 주방이 요리하면서 많이 더러워져.
(jubang-i yorihamyeonseo manhi deoreowo-juh)
“The kitchen is getting dirty while cooking.”

3. 방이 청소되지 않아서 점점 더러워질 거야.
(bang-i cheongso-doeji anh-aseo jeomjeom deoreowo-jil geoya)
“Since the room isn’t being cleaned, it will gradually get dirty.”

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