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Used to express inability or impossibility; 'can't', 'not able to'.
Formation
๋ชป + Verb
Examples
์ค๋์ ๋๋ฌด ํผ๊ณคํด์ ์ ๋ ์ผ์ฐ ์ ์ ๋ชป ์ค์ด์.
Oneureun neomu pigonhaeseo jeoneun iljjik jameul mot jasseoyo.
Today I was so tired that I couldn't go to sleep early.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ง์ด ๊ฑฑ์ ํ๊ณ ์คํธ๋ ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์์ ๋ฐฅ์ ๋ชป ๋จน์์ด์.
Geunyeoneun manhi geokjeonghago seuteureseureul badaseo babeul mot meogeosseoyo.
She was so worried and stressed that she couldn't eat.
๋น๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์ด ์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋์ด๊ณต์์ ๊ฐ ์๊ฐ ์์์ด์.
Biga neomu mani waseo urineun noligongweone gal suga eopseosseoyo.
Because it rained so much, we couldn't go to the amusement park.
์ ๋ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฆ๊ฒ ์์ ํ์์ ์ฐธ์์ ๋ชป ํ์ด์.
Jeoneun neomu neujge waseo hoeuie chamseogeul mot haesseoyo.
I arrived too late, so I couldn't attend the meeting.
Long Explanation
'๋ชป [mot]' is a Korean adverb used to indicate an inability or impossibility to do something. This can be a physical inability, a matter of circumstance, or a lack of permission. It corresponds to 'can't' or 'not able to' in English and is placed directly before the verb.
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