>답다 1) sharing property

꽃답다 be like a flower 

그는 꽃다운 나이에 죽었다. He died at an age like a flower (=young)

아름답다 be beautiful

정답다 be friendly


>2) 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.


그녀는 교수 답다. she is like a professor : That is, she is academic.


>3) 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.

이번에 우리 아들이 선생다운 선생을 만났어 At this time, my son met a academic teacher .

@ 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.