넓다

neolda · TOPIK 1

to be wide, spacious

🏟️ neolda sounds like null-da: null walls, nothing hemming you in = wide

The stem 넓- (neolb-) is said neol, close to English null. A room with null clutter and null walls pressing in is spacious. Related word 넓이 (neolbi) means area, so the same stem measures how wide something is.

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