하다
Meanings
Verb
1. to do; used to vaguely refer to almost any action, in particular (transitive)
a. to prepare, to make (food, clothes, etc.) (transitive)
b. to make a certain facial expression (transitive)
c. to have, to eat (often polite, transitive)
d. to wear, to put on (accessories such as hats or jewelry) (transitive)
e. to run (an enterprise, etc.) (transitive)
f. to be, to take the responsibility of... (a charge, a role) (transitive)
g. to get (a result) (transitive)
h. to cost, to be worth (a certain price) (of prices, whether literal or figuratively, transitive)
i. to treat, to deal with (usually with 어떻게 (“how”), transitive)
j. to acquire (an object, by purchase or other arrangement) (euphemistic, transitive)
2. to say (that) (after an indirect quotation)
a. to be like; to say (that) (after a direct quotation, colloquial, especially as 하고)
b. to call, to name (transitive)
c. to go; make the sound of the onomatopoeia; to act according to the ideophone (after an ideophone or onomatopoeia)
d. to wonder, to ponder (after an interrogative suffix)
3. to make, to render (transitive)
a. to decide on; to make; to use (as) (with a noun, transitive)
b. to decide (with a clause nominalized with -기 or 것, transitive)
c. to cause to face (with a direction, transitive)
4. to treat (in a certain way) (intransitive, with indirect object, with adverb)
5. See -어하다 (-eohada, “to consider (as); to find (as)”). (auxiliary)
6. Used as a light verb to allow nouns and noun-like forms to function as active verbs. The verb itself has little to no real meaning. The noun functions as a direct object of the verb, being able to take particles such as the accusative case marker -을 or the topic marker -은.
7. Used as a light verb to allow nouns and noun-like forms to function as adjectives. The verb itself has little to no real meaning. The noun can be separated by the topic marker -은.
8. After certain roots, fully suffixed to form an inseparable verb or adjective. Such roots tend to be single-character Sino-Korean morphemes.
9. Used with no real meaning after a verb or adjective nominalized with -기 and followed by a particle.
10. Used as the neutral verbal element after suffixes expressing intent.
11. Used as the neutral verbal element for constructions with repeated suffixes.
12. and all; used after -고 to emphasize a suffix expressing causation. (colloquial)
13. Various idiomatic usages
a. See -게 하다 (-ge hada, “to make; (forms the causative)”).
b. See -고는 하다 (-goneun hada, “[one] would [customarily]...”).
c. See -다 하면 (-da hamyeon, “if... always”).
d. See -어야 하다 (-eoya hada, “must; should; have to”).
e. See -었으면 하다 (-eosseumyeon hada, “to wish; to hope”).
f. See -으로 하여 (-euro hayeo, “because of; via”).
g. See -쯤 해서 (-jjeum haeseo, “around the time...”).
h. See -하고 (-hago, “and, with”).
i. See 하면 (hamyeon, “as for”).
j. See 할 것 없다 (hal geot eopda, “to have no need to distinguish”).
Pronunciation
hada
Examples1621
기분이 안 좋길래 > 기분이 안 좋고 하길래
since I was feeling bad > since I was feeling bad and all
걔가 나보고 "너 미쳤냐?" 하는 거 있지?
He was telling me, you know, "Are you insane?"
전쟁을 하는 것이 얼마나 끔찍한 일인지 나는 몰랐었다.
I had not known what a terrible thing it is to wage war.
대통령을 하는 것은 쉬운 일이 아니다.
It is not an easy thing to be president.
얼굴을 메카 방향으로 하고 기도를 드렸다.
He had his face face Mecca, and offered his prayers.
했어? — 아니, 못 했어.
Did you do it? — No, I couldn't.