Korean grammar · Level 4 · 4급
-기 마련이다
That's bound to happen
-기 마련이다 says that something naturally or usually happens — it's just how things go. It is for general truths, not one-off plans, and it attaches straight to the stem of a verb or an adjective.
Examples
싼 물건은 금방 고장 나기 마련이에요.
Cheap things are bound to break quickly.
처음에는 누구나 실수하기 마련이에요.
Everyone makes mistakes at first.
세일할 때는 사람이 많기 마련이에요.
There are bound to be crowds when there's a sale.
Practise it in context · Level 4, Unit 2
Spending and saving
A dialogue with audio, practice that checks itself, Hoya’s mistakes, a reading and a writing task.
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