넣다
neo-ta
Sugar goes in, and so does your resume
The picture Something outside is sent past a boundary and settles inside. 넣다 puts something inside a boundary; 빼다 draws it back out.
Where the picture shows up in 넣다
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an object goes into the bag
가방에 우산 넣었어요?
ga-bang-e u-san neo-eo-sseo-yo
Did you put the umbrella in your bag?
Standing the umbrella up, sliding it past the mouth of the bag, and zipping it shut
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a taste goes into the cup
커피에 설탕 넣어 드릴까요?
keo-pi-e seol-tang neo-eo deu-ril-kka-yo
Shall I put sugar in your coffee?
A spoonful of sugar going over the rim of the cup and down into the coffee
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a document goes into the company
이력서를 그 회사에 넣었어요.
i-ryeok-seo-reul geu hoe-sa-e neo-eo-sseo-yo
I put my resume in at that company.
A resume in its envelope dropping through the slot of the company intake box
This is how Koreans say they applied: the papers are sent inside the boundary called a company.
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money goes into the account
통장에 돈을 좀 넣어 두세요.
tong-jang-e do-neul jom neo-eo du-se-yo
Put some money into the account.
Banknotes going through the machine slot and landing inside the account balance line
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a sentence goes into the paper
그 말은 계약서에 꼭 넣어야 해요.
geu ma-reun gye-yak-seo-e kkok neo-eo-ya hae-yo
That line has to go into the contract.
A sentence floating in the air settling down between two clauses of the contract
All of it in one picture
넣다 is one picture: something crossing a boundary and coming to rest inside. The umbrella crosses into the bag and you have it with you; sugar crosses into the cup and becomes the taste; a resume crosses into the company and becomes an application; money crosses into the account and becomes savings; a sentence crosses into the contract and becomes a promise. So wherever 넣다 goes, something that was outside now has a place inside some boundary.