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Please can any Koreans tell me what this means?

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Cell.cell
Profile Joined April 2010
United States46 Posts
October 14 2010 09:55 GMT
#1
I hear this phrase on the korean streams constantly and I want to know so badly what it means. All I can say is it sounds like "ah sim me dah". And it usually ends the sentence, like "words words words... ah sim me dah"
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.Aar
Profile Joined September 2010
2177 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-14 10:04:26
October 14 2010 09:59 GMT
#2
Hanshimada? That means "foolish." That's in my experience kind of a derogatory word to use though, a lot stronger than "foolish"... more like "stupid." But in the sense of "foolish."

Not sure if that's what you're looking for, though. If you link me to a VOD or something I could be a bit more helpful..

edit:// Shim he da? That translates to like.. uhh. Hm. Hard to say it in English, but it refers to the gravity of a situation, sort of.

Is it really "sim" like, the game "Sims," or is that your way of romanizing "shim"? If it's really sim (and not seem) then it's probably a loanword from English. "Seem" is kind of rare I think, since the character for "s" becomes a "sh" when combined with the vowel "ee". You can have the double "ss" which doesn't become "sh" but I don't see that very often, and my vocabulary's too limited for me to think of a word that includes that at 3 in the morning.
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HobbitGotGame
Profile Joined June 2009
Canada178 Posts
October 14 2010 10:00 GMT
#3
From what I can gather from your romanization it probably means 'that's risky.'
Cell.cell
Profile Joined April 2010
United States46 Posts
October 14 2010 10:04 GMT
#4
Wow awesome responses so quick. I should just type out an entire video in english sounds and have you guys translate . Will try to link a video where I hear the phrase.
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PizzaHash
Profile Joined February 2010
Netherlands76 Posts
October 14 2010 10:04 GMT
#5


at 2:50 "ke te muné" what does this mean?
at 2:54 "ah sim me dah" this is what OP means I think
spydR
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia243 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-14 10:08:01
October 14 2010 10:07 GMT
#6
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=60392
search function

edit: post sounded rude.

It means "it is" or "they are" in context
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33316 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-14 10:09:50
October 14 2010 10:07 GMT
#7
It's almost certainly a variant of "ib ni da" / 입니다.

It's how you end a sentence in Korean if you're speaking in the most respectful tense (as announcers typically do). It has no particular meaning. Also, moved to blogs.
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Cell.cell
Profile Joined April 2010
United States46 Posts
October 14 2010 10:14 GMT
#8
Sounds like it is probably the "Simida" sound, which is the respectful tense thing. I actually did try to search for this before, but didn't know I should look for the word simida in the search engine. Thanks again!
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canikizu
Profile Joined September 2010
4860 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-14 10:17:01
October 14 2010 10:16 GMT
#9
Imagine it's like "eh" in Canada (end at every sentence) but more formal, respect.
nataziel
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Australia1455 Posts
October 14 2010 10:21 GMT
#10
On October 14 2010 19:07 Waxangel wrote:
It's almost certainly a variant of "ib ni da" / 입니다.

It's how you end a sentence in Korean if you're speaking in the most respectful tense (as announcers typically do). It has no particular meaning. Also, moved to blogs.


This is totally correct but I'll just explain it a little more since what waxangel said is kinda vague. Basically, in korean and japanese, verbs are the final words in sentences, as opposed to english where they come after the subject but before the object. In this case the verb is 'to be', best translated to english as "is"

eg: Fruit dealer 'is' at 9 o'clock

As you can see, 'is' is the verb in this sentence.

Anyway, the formal version of 입니다(romanised as ip ni da, but pronounced immida) is 습니다 (romanised as sup ni da, but pronounced sumida), which is what they're saying. Without context it doesn't really mean anything, and most of the times you hear it (which will be A LOT) it doesn't have a very explicit meaning, it's just a way of ending the sentence.
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Recherche87
Profile Joined October 2010
Korea (South)8 Posts
October 14 2010 10:21 GMT
#11
in formal korean phrase usually ends with Sup Ni Da, Ip Ni Da like that...
these are called 종결어미 in korea.
i dont know what is translated in english... maybe termination or ending sentences? it's not contain any practical meaning.. its just an grammatical residue for formality.

hope you understand my explanation and sorry for my english lol
Dorkan
Profile Joined April 2010
Spain28 Posts
October 14 2010 11:03 GMT
#12
that makes sense, since it's on almost every sentence
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