Example Sentences#

1. 현우: 맞아, 사람이 너무 많아서 지하철도 몇 번이나 그냥 지나가고, 택시도 잘 안 잡혀서 늦을 뻔했어.¹
   Hyunwoo: Yeah, there were so many people that a bunch of subways just passed by, and taxis were hard to catch, so I was almost late.
   • 잡히다 means ‘to be caught’. It is the passive form of 잡다 (to catch), formed by adding the passive suffix -히-.
   • -어서 is a connective ending that indicates a sequence of related events, cause and effect, or ways or means.