고프다
Meanings
Adjective
1. to be hungry, empty, starved (of the stomach, intransitive)
2. to thirst for, to desire (desired being is subject) (figurative, intransitive, figuratively)
Pronunciation
gopeuda
Examples7
사람이 고프다
to thirst for human contact
사랑이 고프다
to thirst for love
배가 고프다
to be hungry
그들은 아직 배가 고프지않다고 말한다.
They say that they're not hungry yet.
검사에게 너무 배가 고파서 빵을 훔쳤다고 대면 정상이 참작될지도 모른다.
It may extenuate circumstances, if you tell a public prosecutor that you have been hungry very much and stole bread.
톰은 배가 너무 고프다.
Tom is starving.