be refreshing, reviving; fresh, cool; feel relieved
차가w-
be cold to the touch
Intransitive Verbs (Processive Verbs That Cannot Take Objects)
막히-
get/be blocked, congested
길이 많이 막혔어요.
The roads are really congested [with traffic].
우-ᄅ-
cry, weep
웃-
smile; laugh
Lesson Notes
16.1. Verbs: The -고 Form
16.1.1. How to Make -고 Forms
The -고 form is a one-shape ending like -지 or -겠-; it is the same regardless of whether it comes after a vowel or a consonant. You have already learned it in part when we covered the -고 싶어요 (wants to do) construction (Lesson Nine).
As seen in Lesson Nine, one-shape endings that begin with voiceless consonants (ᄃ,ᄌ,ㅅ,ᄀ) are all attached to bases in much the same way, so that the -고 form is formed very much like the -지 form.
주의
Here are some rules to help you with the pronunciation of gerunds:
a.
Consonant-base verbs like 들- that end in ᄅ change the final consonant to ᄃ before another consonant, and the ᄃ is pronounced as〔ᄀ〕before ᄀ or〔ㅅ〕before ㅅ.
들-,듣다 listen
→
듣고 〔드꼬〕;듣지〔드찌〕
b.
Bases that end in ㅅ, ᄍ, ㅅ, or ᄎ change their final consonants to an interim ᄃ.
벗- removes
→
벗고 (→ 벋고) 〔버꼬〕
있- there is
→
있고 (→ 읻고) 〔이꼬〕
찾- seek
→
찾고 (→ 찯고) 〔차꼬〕
Naturally, this includes all past-tense gerunds:
-었고 (→ -얻고)〔-어꼬〕
c.
Consonant bases like 구w- broil that end in w change the w to ᆸ before another consonant:
가까w- be near
→
가깝고 〔가깝꼬〕
(가까워요)
→
가깝지 〔가깝찌〕
d.
For bases that end with more than one consonant (other than ㄶ and ᆰ — see Rule f below) you pronounce only one of the consonants when you attach an ending that starts with a consonant.
없- there isn’t
→
없고 (→ 업-고) 〔업꼬〕
읽- read
→
읽고 (→ 일-고) 〔일꼬〕
or (→ 익-고) 〔이꼬〕
e.
Bases that end in ᄆ (including ᆱ), ᄂ, (including ㄵ ), and an ᄅ that is a reduction of a cluster (like ᆰ in read above) double a following voiceless consonant.
신- wear on feet
→
신고 〔신꼬〕
앉- sit
→
앉고 (→ 안-고) 〔안꼬〕
젊- be young
→
젊고 (→ 점-고) 〔점꼬〕
f.
Notice how final - 궁 aspirates the following ᆨ in examples like these:
좋- be good
→
좋고 〔조코〕
많- be much
→
많고 〔만코〕
싫- be disliked
→
싫고 〔실코〕
낳- give birth to
→
낳고 〔나코〕
g.
The ending -고, like -지,is attached to the EXTENDED bases of L-extending vowel verbs.
파-ᆯ- sell
→
팔고
There are tenseless (plain) -고 forms, made by attaching the ending -고 to the plain base of the verb (가- go: 가고), and past-tense 一고 forms, made by attaching -고 to the past base.