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괴롭히다: Vocabulary #473

Example Sentences#

  1. 하지만 곧, 만족하지 못하는 마음이 그를 괴롭히기 시작했습니다.1
    But soon, dissatisfaction began to torment him.
    • 괴롭히다 means ‘to torment’. It is derived from the adjective 괴롭다 (to be painful or distressing) with the causative suffix -히- added.
    • -기 is a nominalizing suffix, turning the verb into a noun form.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from The Stonecutter Journey Story.

괴롭히다: Vocabulary #473
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Author
Korean Story Lab
Published at
2026-03-19
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