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Eat in Korean 🇰🇷


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Eat 먹고살다
How to say “Eat” in Korean? “먹고살다”. Here you will learn how to pronounce “먹고살다” correctly and in the comments below you will be able to get all sorts of advice on Eat in Korean like tips & tricks to remember it, questions, explanations and more.

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Tips to Remember:
• Break down the word into its two parts: 먹다 (meokda, “to eat”) and 살다 (salda, “to live”). Think of it as “eat and live” – a reminder that earning a living means having enough to eat.
• Visualize someone working just enough to secure their meals, emphasizing survival and making ends meet.

Explanations:
• 먹고살다 (meokgo-salda) is a compound verb meaning “to make a living” or “to eke out a living.” It implies earning just enough to survive.
• It is used when describing how someone supports themselves financially or sustains their life.

Other Words with Similar Meaning:
• 연명하다 (yeonmyeonghada) – “to eke out a living”
• 생활하다 (saenghwalhada) – “to get by” or “to live”
• 근근이 살다 (geungeuni salda) – “to barely scrape by”

Conjugations (using common levels of politeness):

Infinitive (base form):
• 먹고살다 (meokgo-salda)

Present Tense:
• Informal polite: 먹고살아 (meokgo-sala)
• Formal polite: 먹고삽니다 (meokgo-samnida)

Past Tense:
• Informal polite: 먹고살았어 (meokgo-sarasseo)
• Formal polite: 먹고살았습니다 (meokgo-sarasseumnida)

Future Tense:
• Informal polite: 먹고살 거야 (meokgo-sal geoya)
• Formal polite: 먹고살 것입니다 (meokgo-sal geosimnida)

Examples of Sentences:
1. 그는 새 직장을 구해서 먹고살아.
(Geuneun sae jikjangeul guhaeseo meokgo-sala.)
“He found a new job to make a living.”

2. 많은 사람들이 이 도시에서 힘들게 먹고살아요.
(Manheun saramdeuri i dosi-eseo himdeulge meokgo-salayo.)
“Many people struggle to earn a living in this city.”

3. 내년에는 더 안정적으로 먹고살 것입니다.
(Naenyeon-eneun deo anjeongjeogeuro meokgo-sal geosimnida.)
“Next year, I will make a living more stably.”

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