답다 1) sharing property
꽃답다 be like a flower : 꽃다운 나이 age like a flower = young
아름답다 be beautiful
정답다 be friendly
- sharing affirmative property
어른답다 be like a adult : Usually, adult is responsible, polite, and honest. So whenever he is in any state, like adult or kid, we can say.
교수답다. be like a professor : That is, he is academic.
- sharing typical property
이 책은 책답다 This book is really book : That is, it contains a lot of useful information, and it satisfies a lot of properties which should be contained in a book.
@ In general, 답다 is affirmative as a whole. When we use 답다, we must consider high cover, which is outstanding than or equal to him.
So snake is inferior to human so that we can not say 뱀답다.
Hence we can use 왕답다. In my thought, as you know, king is rare so that it seems that we do use use it frequently.
We can use 어른 같어, 왕 같어, 뱀 같어, 교수 같어.
같어=apperance vs 답다=property (Surely we check property through appeared act : 그는 남자 다웠다. He was like a man)
For instance, someone does not give his one to others and he check his profit. He is like a snake. That is, he has a property of snake. Hence when we see his stealing something (property is appeared in outside), we say that 그는 뱀같어.