버리다

beorida · TOPIK 1

to throw away

🗑️ sounds like bury-da: bury it and it is gone for good

버리다 (beorida) starts like the English word bury — what you bury, you are rid of. As a helper verb after -아/어, it keeps that sense of gone for good: 먹어 버리다 = to eat it all up, with nothing left to undo.

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