Example Sentences#

1. 하지만 얼마 지나지 않아 맹인은 두 개씩 집어먹기 시작했다.¹
   But not long after, the blind man began eating two at a time.
   • 집어먹다 is a compound verb combining 집다 (to pick up) and 먹다 (to eat), meaning ‘to pick up and eat’.
   • -기 is a nominalizing suffix, turning the verb into a noun form.