못하다

motada · [모타다]

be incapable · fail to · worse than · not as good as

verbadjectiveBeginner

Meanings

모ː타다 · verb · Beginner

  1. be incapable; fail toTo fail to make a certain work reach a certain level or to not own the ability to do so.

모ː타다 · adjective · Beginner

  1. worse than; not as good asThe level or degree of something or someone not reaching that of others when compared.
  2. at leastBy the lowest estimate.
Other Words Spelled the Same (2)

모ː타다 · auxiliary verb

  1. cannotAn auxiliary verb used to indicate that an action in the preceding statement was not completed or that one does not have the ability to do it.

모ː타다 · auxiliary adjective

  1. An auxiliary adjective used to indicate that the state described by the preceding words cannot be reached.
  2. An auxiliary adjective used to indicate that the action or state described by the preceding words is too extreme to be sustained.

Examples from Lessons (3)

너무 긴장해서 말을 하지 못해요.

Seungnyang is too nervous to speak.

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Many feel that the process of reflecting on one's true self does not hold as much importance as information provided by social statistics.

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Yeah, but I can't turn the volume up.

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Grammar in These Examples

Korean definitions, pronunciations and learner levels are from the Basic Korean Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

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