Korean

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Etymology

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과거(科擧) (gwageo, civil service examination) +‎ 하다 (-hada, to do, light verb deriving active verbs).

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gwageohada
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gwageohada
McCune–Reischauer?kwagŏhada
Yale Romanization?kwakehata

Verb

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과거하다 (gwageohada) (infinitive 과거해 or 과거하여, sequential 과거하니) (intransitive)

  1. (historical, rare) to pass the civil service examination (in historical Korea, China, Vietnam)
    Synonym: (much more common) 급제(及第)하다 (geupjehada)
    • 1795, 혜경궁 홍씨 / 惠慶宮 洪氏 (Lady Hong of the Hyegyeong Palace), 한중록 [hanjungnok, Memoirs of Lady Hyegyeong]:
      션인 과거ᄒᆞ신 브터 졔우 ᄌᆞ별ᄒᆞ시고 []
      syeonin-i gwageohasin jeon-beuteo je'u-ga jabyeolhasigo [ ]
      From before my past father passed the civil service examinations, his meetings were of a special sort []
    • 1996, ()()()()()()()()()() (12), Bulham munhwasa:
      ()()하고 ()()하는
      gwageohago chulsahaneun il
      the affair of passing the civil service examinations and assuming one's first government post
    • transcribed 2010, “베틀가 [beteulga, Song of the Loom (folk song)]”, in jinan.grandculture.net[1]:
      과개(科擧)한 높이 앉았구나
      gwagaehan deut nop-i anjatguna
      How she sits on high, as if she passed the civil service examinations

Conjugation

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See also

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  • 과거 보다 (gwageo-reul boda, to take the civil service examination)