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생겼다고

that ... happened, that ... came up, that ... got, that ... came to have

→ 생기다
생겼 Past tense + 다고 Indirect quotation
verb · informal, past tense Rare #29,386
that ... happened, that ... came up Used to report or describe something that happened or arose.
KO: 갑자기 문제가 생겼다고 말했어요.
EN: They said a problem had suddenly come up.
that ... got, that ... came to have Often used for something that has come into someone's possession, such as money.
KO: 돈이 생겼다고 친구에게 말했어요.
EN: I told my friend that I had gotten some money.
Conjugation of 생기다
Quotative past
생겼다고

급한 일 생겼다고 주말에 온대요

They said they’d come over on the weekend because something urgent came up.

— Unlocked (2023)

나 한테 그런 일이 생겼다고 털어놓을 정도로 말 이다.

I trusted them enough to tell them that something like that had happened to me.