gireul moreugesseumyeon nachimbaneul meonjeo bwa.

to not know

Breakdown of gireul moreugesseumyeon nachimbaneul meonjeo bwa.

• 보다: to look at
• 먼저: first
• 길: way

Questions & Answers about gireul moreugesseumyeon nachimbaneul meonjeo bwa.

Why is 길 marked with -을 in 길을 모르겠으면?

Because 모르다 usually takes a direct object in Korean.

So 길을 모르다 means to not know the way / route.

• 길 = road, way, route
• -을 = object marker
• 모르다 = to not know

For English speakers, this can feel a little different because English often says I don’t know the way without thinking much about grammar. In Korean, 길 is treated as the thing you don’t know, so it gets the object particle.

A very common pattern is:

• 길을 알다 = to know the way
• 길을 모르다 = to not know the way

What exactly does 길 mean here?

Here, 길 does not just mean a physical road. It means the way, the route, or which direction to go.

So in this sentence, 길을 모르겠으면 means something like:

• if you don’t know the way
• if you’re not sure where to go
• if you don’t know the route

This is a very common use of 길 in Korean.

What is the difference between 모르면 and 모르겠으면?