옮기다
om-gi-da
You move a box, and you also move a cold
The picture What was here is lifted and set down there. The thing does not change; its place does. 옮기다 changes the place something occupies; 두다 leaves it sitting where it is.
Where the picture shows up in 옮기다
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an object changes place
이 상자 저쪽으로 옮겨 주세요.
i sang-ja jeo-jjo-geu-ro om-gyeo ju-se-yo
Please move this box over there.
Lifting the box with both hands and setting it down on the floor over there
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the place you belong to changes
다음 달에 회사를 옮겨요.
da-eum da-re hoe-sa-reul om-gyeo-yo
I'm moving to a new company next month.
My name tag coming off one company board and hanging itself on another
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a time slot changes place
약속을 금요일로 옮겼어요.
yak-so-geul geu-myo-il-lo om-gyeo-sseo-yo
I moved the appointment to Friday.
The appointment mark on the calendar getting up out of the Wednesday square and sitting down in the Friday one
A date is a place too: the appointment is lifted and set down on another day.
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an illness moves to another person
감기를 애한테 옮겼어요.
gam-gi-reul ae-han-te om-gyeo-sseo-yo
I passed my cold to the kid.
The cold in my body crossing over to the child and settling in there
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words change into another language
이 말을 한국어로 옮겨 주세요.
i ma-reul han-gu-geo-ro om-gyeo ju-se-yo
Please put this into Korean.
The meaning that sat on the English sentence getting up and sitting down on the Korean one
This is how you say translate: the meaning is lifted and set down in another language.
All of it in one picture
옮기다 is one picture: only the place changes. The box goes to the other side of the floor and you have moved it; the name tag goes to another board and you have changed jobs; the mark goes to another square and the date has moved; the cold goes to another body and you have passed it on; the meaning goes onto other words and it is a translation. So wherever 옮기다 goes, the thing itself is unchanged and only the spot it occupies is different.