To compel in Korean 🇰🇷

강요하는 중이다 info.

Tips to remember:
• Notice that “강요” (gangyo) sounds similar to “force” in English, so you can think of it as “forcing” someone to do something.
• The ending “–하는 중이다” (haneun jungida) means “in the middle of doing” something, emphasizing an ongoing action.

Explanation:
• The base verb is 강요하다 (gangyo hada), meaning “to compel” or “to force.”
• When you add “–하는 중이다” to the verb stem (dropping 다), it becomes “강요하는 중이다” (gangyohaneun jungida), which means “is compelling” or “is forcing” at the present moment.
• The phrase emphasizes that the act of compelling is currently happening.

Other words with similar meaning:
• 강제하다 (gangjehada) – “to coerce” or “to enforce”
• 억지로 하다 (eokjiro hada) – “to do something by force” or “to force someone to do something”

Conjugations of 강요하다:
Infinitive: 강요하다 (gangyo hada) – "to compel"

Present Tense:
• Declarative: 강요한다 (gangyo handa)
• Progressive: 강요하고 있다 (gangyohago itda) / colloquially “강요하는 중이다” (gangyohaneun jungida) – "is compelling"

Past Tense:
• 간단한 form: 강요했다 (gangyo haetda) – "compelled"
• Progressive past: 강요하고 있었다 (gangyohago isseotda) – "was compelling"

Future Tense:
• 강요할 것이다 (gangyo hal geosida) – "will compel"

Examples of sentences:
1. He is compelling his subordinates to work overtime.
• 그의 부하들에게 야근을 강요하는 중이다.
• (Geuui buhadeul-ege yageuneul gangyohaneun jungida.)

2. They compelled me to sign the document.
• 그들은 나에게 문서에 서명할 것을 강요했다.
• (Geudeul-eun naege munseo-e seomyeonghal geos-eul gangyohaetda.)

3. Tomorrow, she will compel everyone to follow the rules.
• 내일, 그녀는 모두에게 규칙을 따르게 할 것이다.
• (Naeil, geunyeoneun moduege gyuchik-eul ttareuge hal geosida.)

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