Example Sentences#

1. 노인의 아들은 다리가 부러져 군대로 가지 않았습니다.¹
   The old man’s son did not go to the army because he broke his leg.
   • 부러지다 means ‘to break’.
   • -어서 is a connective ending that indicates a sequence of related events, cause and effect, or ways or means. In this context, 서 is omitted.