"남자는 고양이를 잃어버렸어요."

Translation:A man lost a cat.

September 28, 2017

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https://www.duolingo.com/profile/RQZ.Sash

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


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Victoria_895

Excuse my asking, but what about 잊다 and 잊어버리다?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/GinnyBaudelaire

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


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Zosia3604

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


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/HelloMichaelh

"The man" was marked wrong.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/seoul_train

it's conversing with the dog


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/FlyorDrown

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


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/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.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/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


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/DericiousCake

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


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Staszek456

or maybe a cat lost its owner? :)


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/seoul_train

much sadder than that lost dog


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/ph.R0qUrw

Why they add in the last 를?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/ph.IhqylY

Because its topic partical


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Blisterseer1

BTS lost yoongi???


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/thorkh

우리 고양이!

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