Example Sentences#

1. 우리가 번갈아 가며 하나씩 먹자.¹
   Let’s take turns eating one at a time.
   • 번갈다 is a compound verb formed from 번 (meaning ‘time’ or ‘occurrence’ and used to count occurrences of an event or to mark a specific instance in a sequence, here meaning ‘turn’) and 갈다 (meaning ‘to switch’ or ‘to change’), together meaning ‘to take turns’ or ‘to alternate’.
   • -아서 is a connective ending that indicates a sequence of related events. In this context, 서 is omitted.