Come and Go

I walked to the bus station but first I stopped at Joe’s Pizza. I had planned to buy a couple slices but instead I bought a whole pizza. The cashier said it would be 5 minutes then she said something else that I didn’t understand. I repeated back the word to her  for a confirmation. She confirmed, but it was a word I was not familiar with.  Then she  gestured to go in the restaurant. I said, “that’s okay”, and asked her to say the word one more time. As I punched the characters into the cellphone I thought, “Wow, another ‘come and go’ verb”.

This is the third time this month that I’ve discovered a verb with “come” or “go” in it.  I just had to do a  Come and Go post.

Absolute Essential base verbs:

오다 - to come
가다 - to go

Essential combinations:

들어오다 - to come in, enter (the word the cashier used)
들어가다 - to go in, enter

가져오다 - to bring (over here)
가져가다 - to take (over there)

오다 - to come out
가다 - to go out

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