"남자는 고양이를 잃어버렸어요."

Translation: A man lost a cat.

[RQZ.Sash]

Tips: 잃어버리다 is for losing something physical, 잃다 is for losing something non-physical (memory, job, interest).

[Straw_Neige]

Excuse my asking, but what about 잊다 and 잊어버리다?

[Zosia3604]

dictionary:
잊다 - to forget; leave behind
잊어버리다 - to completely forget
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[GinnyBudelaire]

But I saw 학생은 책을 두 번 일었어 in a practice?

[Zosia3604]

I looked it up in a Korean dictionary and it says that 잃어버리다 and 잃다 are interchangeable

[HelloMichaelh]

"The man" was marked wrong.

[BaptisteBo375149]

Flag it :)

[altf2junkie]

So was "the cat".

[Demonym281]

one of the worst things about this course is how the style guide seems to have been 그 = 'that', not 'the', so 99% of the time there's just no definite article & it's pure guesswork whether they translated it as The, A, or nothing at all

[Jeong-JinL]

If I understand correctly, the 버리다 is a compound verb strategy of making the main verb perfective. So, this sentence is especially sad because I think it is implying the cat is (presumed) lost for good.
Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

[malamillie]

Garam stole it.

[seoul_train]

it's conversing with the dog

[FlyorDrown]

How do we know if it's "a" or "the"? It feels like the criteria changes from exercise to exercise...

[IceCreamCrackers]

Context.

[GeorgiaFil5]

That is so sad.

[Igor242724]

The man forgot the cat

[DericiousCake]

"A man lost a cat" sounds like a slow news day.

[Staszek456]

or maybe a cat lost its owner? :)

[seoul_train]

much sadder than that lost dog