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아 보다
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아 보다

Try it (아/어 보다)

아/어 보세요 — the polite way to suggest tasting, visiting, or attempting.

Do and see

Stem + 아/어 보다: 입어 보세요 “try it on.” Past 가 봤어요 is “I have been.” This is not the verb 보다 “to see” alone — keep the space in your head even if writing omits it.

이거 드셔 보세요.
igeo deusyeo boseyo.
Please try this.
한강에 가 봤어요?
hangange ga bwasseoyo?
Have you been to the Han River?

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