지키기

protecting, guarding, keeping

→ 지키다
verb Rare #21,871
protecting, guarding, keeping The -기 form turns the verb into an action or activity, like “protecting” or “keeping.”
KO: 약속을 지키기는 중요해요.
EN: Keeping a promise is important.
Conjugation of 지키다
Present
Indicative
Indicative present
Purposive
Necessitative
Indicative past

뭐, 아무튼 당신은 자기 여자 잘 못 지키기로 유명한 남자 잖아

Well, anyway, you're known for being a guy who can't protect his own woman.

— Oldboy (2003)

자신의 종을 지키기 위해서요

To protect its own species.

— 인터스텔라 (2014)

말은 안 하지만 당신들은 내가 벽을 지키기를 원해 나를 필요로 한다고!

You don't say it, but you want me—and need me—to guard the wall!

— 어 퓨 굿 맨 (1992)