Questions & Answers about jega jalmos ilgeosseoyo.
• 제가 = 저 (humble “I”) + subject particle -가
• 잘못 = adverb “wrongly,” “incorrectly”
• 읽었어요 = past tense polite form of 읽다 (“to read”)
Altogether: “I misread (it).”
- Start with the dictionary form 읽다.
- Drop -다 → 읽.
- Since the final consonant ㄷ precedes a vowel ending, it irregularly changes to ㄹ in pronunciation (though the spelling remains 읽).
- Attach the polite past ending -었어요 → 읽었어요.
So 읽었어요 is the correct polite past form, pronounced [일거써요].
• is the humble pronoun for “I,” appropriate in polite speech.• is casual and (in ) is its possessive/pronoun root, both too informal for most everyday polite contexts.• = + marks the subject humbly and politely.