마주치다

majuchida · [마주치다]

crash against · collide · run against · happen to meet

verbIntermediate

Meanings

  1. crash against; collide; run againstFor two objects to crash into each other head-on.
  2. happen to meet; run acrossFor two people to meet by chance.
  3. (eyes) meetFor glances to meet.
  4. faceTo face an occasion or situation.

Examples from Lessons (3)

민호와 수진이 번화가 길에서 우연히 서로 마주친다.

Minho and Sujin happen to run into each other on a busy street.

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주인공들이 서로 눈 마주칠 때 진짜 심쿵하지 않니?

Don't you get such a heart-fluttering feeling whenever the lead characters look at each other?

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이웃인 지훈 씨와 민수 씨가 아파트 복도에서 우연히 마주쳤다.

Neighbors Ji-hoon and Min-soo happened to bump into each other in the apartment hallway.

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Grammar in These Examples

Korean definitions, pronunciations and learner levels are from the Basic Korean Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

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