불만스럽다 Korean adjective conjugation

dissatisfied

Every form of 불만스럽다 across the four speech levels. It is ㅂ irregular — ㅂ becomes 우 before a vowel: 춥다 → 추워요.

기본형Principal parts

The four forms the dictionary prints. Every other form on this page is derived from them.

관형사형Modifier
불만스러운
아/어Infinitive
불만스러워
-으니Since
불만스러우니
합니다Formal
불만스럽습니다

현재Present

The tense that does the most work. 해요체 is the one to learn first — it is polite without being formal, and it is what most conversation is in.

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
서술Statement 불만스러워요불만스럽습니다불만스러워불만스럽다

과거Past

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
서술Statement 불만스러웠어요불만스러웠습니다불만스러웠어불만스러웠다

미래·추측Future & presumptive

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
-겠-Will / must be 불만스럽겠어요불만스럽겠습니다불만스럽겠어불만스럽겠다
-을 것이다Going to 불만스러울 거예요불만스러울 것입니다불만스러울 거야불만스러울 것이다

의문Questions

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
현재Present 불만스러워요?불만스럽습니까?불만스러워?불만스러우니?
과거Past 불만스러웠어요?불만스러웠습니까?불만스러웠어?불만스러웠니?

부정Negation

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
Not (short) 안 불만스러워요안 불만스럽습니다안 불만스러워안 불만스럽다
-지 않다Not (long) 불만스럽지 않아요불만스럽지 않습니다불만스럽지 않아불만스럽지 않다

높임Honorific

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
현재Present 불만스러우세요불만스러우십니다불만스러우셔불만스러우시다
과거Past 불만스러우셨어요불만스러우셨습니다불만스러우셨어불만스러우셨다

관형사형Modifying a noun

현재Present
불만스러운
과거Past
불만스러운
미래Future
불만스러울
회상Used to
불만스럽던

연결Joining clauses

-고and
불만스럽고
-게-ly / so that
불만스럽게
-어서so / and then
불만스러워서
-으니까since
불만스러우니까
-으면if / when
불만스러우면
-지만but
불만스럽지만
-는데and / but (setting up)
불만스러운데
-어도even if
불만스러워도

문형Sentence patterns

How the dictionary says this verb is used. The numbers are slots: 1 is the subject, 2 the object.

예문In real sentences

From the dictionary, each with its translation.

정지는 불만스러움에 그치는 것이 아니기 때문이죠.

Because staticity isn't just frustrating.

여러분 대다수가 지금의 상황을 불만스럽게 생각할 겁니다.

I believe that many of you are unhappy with the way that things are now.

우고 샤베즈가 베네수엘라의 불만스런 하층민과 중산층을 만든 건 아닙니다.

Hugo Chavez did not invent the disaffected middle and lower class of Venezuela. He merely led them.

1900년에 그는 자신이 지닌 실력에 매우 불만스러워했다.

By 1900, he was deeply dissatisfied with his progress.

자주 묻는 질문Common questions

How do you conjugate 불만스럽다 in Korean?

불만스럽다 (dissatisfied) is 불만스러워요 in the polite 해요체, 불만스럽습니다 in formal 합니다체, 불만스러워 in casual 반말 and 불만스럽다 in the plain written style. The past is 불만스러웠어요.

What is the past tense of 불만스럽다?

불만스러웠어요 in everyday polite speech, 불만스러웠습니다 formally. It is built from the 아/어 form 불만스러워 plus ㅆ, which is why an irregular stem shows its irregularity here.

Is 불만스럽다 irregular?

Yes — it is ㅂ irregular (ㅂ 불규칙). ㅂ becomes 우 before a vowel: 춥다 → 추워요. That is why the stem looks different in 불만스러워 and 불만스러우니 but unchanged in 불만스럽습니다.

What TOPIK level is 불만스럽다?

3급 — TOPIK 3, lower intermediate.

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