잠

jam · TOPIK 1

sleep

🛏️ Sounds like jam: too much jam on toast and you nod off to sleep

잠 is the noun form of 자다 (to sleep): the verb stem 자 plus the noun-making ending ㅁ. So 잠 literally means a sleeping. You even say 잠을 자다, to sleep a sleep.

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