san jeongsangeun ajik neomu meoreo.

The mountain summit is still very far away.

Breakdown of san jeongsangeun ajik neomu meoreo.

• 너무: very
• 산: mountain
• 멀다: far
• 아직: still

Questions & Answers about san jeongsangeun ajik neomu meoreo.

What does 산 정상 mean exactly?

산 정상 means the summit/top of the mountain.

It is made of:

• 산 = mountain
• 정상 = summit, peak, top

In Korean, nouns are often put together like this without 의, so 산 정상 is very natural.
You could also say 산의 정상, but that sounds a little more explicitly like the mountain’s summit. In everyday speech, 산 정상 is common and natural.

Why is 은 used in 정상은?

은 is the topic marker.

So 산 정상은 means something like:

• as for the mountain summit
• the mountain summit, on the other hand...

In this sentence, 은 helps set the summit as the topic being talked about. It can also give a slight contrastive feeling, like:

• other parts may be closer,
• but the summit is still far.

If you used 이/가 instead, the sentence would feel a bit more like simply identifying the subject. With 은, the speaker is presenting the summit as the thing being commented on.

What does 아직 mean here?

아직 means still or yet.

In this sentence, it means the situation has not changed yet:

• the summit is still far away
• we haven’t reached the point where it feels close

So 아직 adds the idea of continuation: it was far before, and it remains far now.