실망스럽다 Korean adjective conjugation

disappointing

Every form of 실망스럽다 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
실망스러운
아/어Infinitive
실망스러워
-으니Since
실망스러우니
합니다Formal
실망스럽습니다

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 실망스러워요실망스럽습니다실망스러워실망스럽다

과거Past

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
서술Statement 실망스러웠어요실망스러웠습니다실망스러웠어실망스러웠다

미래·추측Future & presumptive

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
-겠-Will / must be 실망스럽겠어요실망스럽겠습니다실망스럽겠어실망스럽겠다
-을 것이다Going to 실망스러울 거예요실망스러울 것입니다실망스러울 거야실망스러울 것이다

의문Questions

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
현재Present 실망스러워요?실망스럽습니까?실망스러워?실망스러우니?
과거Past 실망스러웠어요?실망스러웠습니까?실망스러웠어?실망스러웠니?

부정Negation

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
Not (short) 안 실망스러워요안 실망스럽습니다안 실망스러워안 실망스럽다
-지 않다Not (long) 실망스럽지 않아요실망스럽지 않습니다실망스럽지 않아실망스럽지 않다

높임Honorific

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
현재Present 실망스러우세요실망스러우십니다실망스러우셔실망스러우시다
과거Past 실망스러우셨어요실망스러우셨습니다실망스러우셨어실망스러우셨다

관형사형Modifying a noun

현재Present
실망스러운
과거Past
실망스러운
미래Future
실망스러울
회상Used to
실망스럽던

연결Joining clauses

-고and
실망스럽고
-게-ly / so that
실망스럽게
-어서so / and then
실망스러워서
-으니까since
실망스러우니까
-으면if / when
실망스러우면
-지만but
실망스럽지만
-는데and / but (setting up)
실망스러운데
-어도even if
실망스러워도

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.

실망스럽지요. 외국의 원조에만 기댈 수도 없습니다.

You can't depend on foreign aid alone.

지금은 의사도, 과학자도 아니라, 부모님은 많이 실망스러워 하세요.

To my parents' dismay, I am neither a doctor nor a scientist.

홍콩 신문 사우스차이나모닝포스트 기자인 조지 챈이 트위터에 중국이 느낀 실망스러운 감정을 잘 보도했다.

The news also dismayed Beijing, as George Chen, a reporter from the Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post, revealed on Twitter.

그런데 우리는 계속 최종 결과나 시험 결과의 실망스러움에만 집중하죠.

We keep focusing on the end results or test results, and getting frustrated.

자주 묻는 질문Common questions

How do you conjugate 실망스럽다 in Korean?

실망스럽다 (disappointing) is 실망스러워요 in the polite 해요체, 실망스럽습니다 in formal 합니다체, 실망스러워 in casual 반말 and 실망스럽다 in the plain written style. The past is 실망스러웠어요.

What is the past tense of 실망스럽다?

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

Is 실망스럽다 irregular?

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

What TOPIK level is 실망스럽다?

5급 — TOPIK 5, advanced.

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