Example Sentences#

1. 어느 날 그들은 강 옆에 도착했는데, 그곳에는 젊고 아름다운 여자가 강을 건너려 하다가 어려움을 겪고 있었다.¹
   One day, they arrived beside a river, where there was a young and beautiful woman having difficulty trying to cross the river.
   • 겪다 means ‘to experience’.
   • -고 is a connective ending used to link two actions or states, meaning ‘and’, or to join the main verb to auxiliary verbs.