gyotongsagoga naseo gugeupchaga baro wasseoyo.

to come

Breakdown of gyotongsagoga naseo gugeupchaga baro wasseoyo.

• 바로: immediately
• 나다: to occur / to appear
• 교통사고: the traffic accident

Questions & Answers about gyotongsagoga naseo gugeupchaga baro wasseoyo.

Why is 나다 used with 교통사고?

In Korean, 사고가 나다 is the natural expression for an accident happens / an accident occurs.
So 교통사고가 나다 is a set phrase meaning a traffic accident occurs.

This is different from English, where we usually use happen. In Korean, 나다 is often used with things like:

• 사고가 나다 — an accident happens
• 불이 나다 — a fire breaks out
• 문제가 나다 — a problem occurs

So even though 나다 often means to come out or to appear in other contexts, here it means to occur.

What does 나서 mean here?

나서 comes from 나다 + -아서/어서.

So the structure is:

• 나다 — to happen, to occur
• 나서 — because it happened / and then it happened

In this sentence, 교통사고가 나서 connects the first event to the second one. It shows that the traffic accident happened, and as a result, the ambulance came right away.

Also, this is a normal contraction:

• 가다 → 가서
• 오다 → 와서
• 나다 → 나서

Does -아서/어서 here mean because, or does it just connect two actions?