"Flowers bloom in the spring."
Translation:봄에는 꽃들이 펴.
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It must be written as "봄에는 꽃들이 피어." Koreans never write '피(bloom) + 어' as '펴'. '펴' is only used for '펴(spread) + 어'. '펴' as 'bloom' is used only as an extremely informal spelling in order to show its oral transcription and not considered as an appropriate normal spelling.
To elaborate:
- 피다: to bloom
- 펴다: to spread
The the existence of 펴다 keeps the ㅣ apart ㅓ in the 피어 as a disambiguation mechanism.
Regardless of the existence of 펴다, one can write 펴 for 피- + -어. Korean does not have such a mechanism.
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피- + -어 can be contracted to 펴 and Koreans do write this way. It is neither informal nor inappropriate. You are confusing this with 사귀다 or 바뀌다.
to emphasize that it only happens in the spring and not during other seasons
