-스무니까

Korean

Etymology

A stereotypical Japanese mispronunciation of the formal polite interrogative verbal suffix 습니까 (-seumnikka), as Japanese lacks coda /-m/.

See also Chinese 思密達／思密达 (sīmìdá), Japanese ニダ (nida), Japanese and Chinese equivalents towards Koreans.

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?seumunikka
Revised Romanization (translit.)?seumuni'kka
McCune–Reischauer?ssŭmunikka
Yale Romanization?qsumuni.kka

Suffix

스무니까 • (-seumunikka)

  1. (sometimes offensive) Alternative form of 습니까 (-seumnikka) used to denote that the person speaking is Japanese.
    Coordinate term: 해 (-hae, “steoretypical suffix for Chinese”)
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