것

geot · TOPIK 1

thing, fact (nominalizer)

📦 sounds like got: the thing you got

것 (geot) sounds close to English got. Whatever you got is a thing. It also turns verbs into nouns: 먹는 것 = the eating thing, i.e. eating, or the fact of eating. In speech it often shrinks to 거 (geo).

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