아프다
apeuda · TOPIK 1
to be sick, to hurt
🤒💊 Sounds like ah-PUH-da: you say AH! PUH! when something hurts
The stem 아프- (apeu-) opens with a pained AH and a puffed-out PUH, the noises people make when hurt or ill. Add -다 for the dictionary form. Related: 아픔 (pain) and 아파요 (it hurts, I am sick) share the same stem.