어서 이기다

eoseoigida

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Also spelled osoigida

win at it by doing that

The -어서 verb names the contest and 이기다 gives the result: 가위바위보해서 이기다 "win at rock-paper-scissors", 씨름을 해서 이기다 "beat someone at wrestling", 경쟁해서 이기다 "win out in competition". When the opponent is an illness or a hardship it usually becomes 이겨내다 "come through it" — 병과 싸워서 이겨내고 있는데, "they're fighting the illness and pulling through". A person you beat takes 을/를; something you struggle against takes 과/와.

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