크다
keuda · TOPIK 1
big, large
🐘 keu sounds like the start of colossal: keu-da = colossal-size, big
The stem 크 (keu) is a hard K plus a short uh, like the first beat of co-LOSS-al. 다 is just the dictionary ending on every Korean verb and adjective. Drop it and you get 큰 (keun), the form used before a noun: 큰 집 = big house.