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먹이는
먹이는
messes with, screws over, feeds, gives (someone) to eat
→ 먹이다
먹
to eat
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이
Forms nouns or adverbs, often meaning ‘person or thing characterized by’ or ‘in a manner or degree of’
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는
Topic marker
verb · present tense
Rare
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messes with, screws over
Colloquial in this sense, especially in expressions like 골탕 먹이다 and 엿 먹이다.
KO:
나를 일부러 골탕 먹이는 거야?
EN:
Are you deliberately messing with me?
feeds, gives (someone) to eat
KO:
아이가 약을 먹이는 게 쉽지 않아요.
EN:
It isn't easy to give the child medicine.
Conjugation of 먹이다
먹일
Present
먹이는