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Getting around
Buses, trains and taxis, and the words for using them.
In Korean you ride a bus as the object of the verb: 버스를 타요, “I ride the bus”, and you get off from it: 버스에서 내려요. Subway lines have numbers, said with the Sino-Korean numbers, and so do station exits — in Seoul, “come out of exit 3”, 삼 번 출구로 나오세요, is how people give directions.
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Verb (8)
타다to ride, take; to get onVerb1
몇 번 버스를 타요?Which number bus do I take?
The vehicle takes 을/를: 택시를 타요.
내리다to get off, get outVerb1
다음 정류장에서 내려요.I get off at the next stop.
The vehicle takes 에서: 버스에서 내려요.
갈아타다to change (trains, buses)Verb1
다음 역에서 갈아타야 해요.I have to change at the next station.
걸어가다to walk (somewhere), go on footVerb1
집까지 걸어가요.I walk home.
세우다to stop (a vehicle); to stand (something) upVerb1
저 앞에서 세워 주세요.Please stop just up ahead.
태우다to give someone a lift; to let someone onVerb1
아빠가 역까지 태워 주셨어요.Dad gave me a lift to the station.
막히다to be jammed (traffic); to be blockedVerb1
길이 많이 막혀요.The traffic is very heavy.
비다to be emptyVerb1
지하철이 텅 비어 있어요.The subway train is completely empty.
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