-아/어 빠지다
a/eo ppajida
Grammar · 1 sense
completely immersed, deeply absorbed
Examples
그 그림이 너무 아름다워서 바라봐 빠져버렸어요.
The painting was so beautiful that I became completely absorbed in looking at it.
소설이 너무 흥미로워서 밤새 읽어 빠졌어요.
The novel was so fascinating that I stayed up all night, completely absorbed in reading it.
그는 최근 도예를 빚어 빠져서 하루 종일 흙을 다루고 있어요.
He’s recently become so immersed in pottery that he spends the entire day working with clay.
When you'd hear it
This is not normally used as a productive pattern for expressing absorption. In everyday Korean, speakers use expressions such as 독서에 빠지다 or 일에 빠져 있다 instead; the supplied forms like 읽어 빠지다 sound unnatural.
What learners get wrong
Do not attach -아/어 빠지다 directly to a verb for this meaning. Use the noun plus -에 빠지다, or use V-는 데 빠져 있다 when describing being absorbed in an activity.
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