Let's learn about "지퍼가 고장 났어요"

지퍼가 고장 났어요 : The zipper is torn; The zipper is broken; The zipper is trapped.

* [옷 등] 끼게 하다 : trap

[other expressions]

<반말(talking down to)>

- 지퍼가 고장(이) 났다. (to younger people or friends)

- 지퍼가 고장(이) 났네. (to younger people or friends)

- 지퍼가 고장(이) 났어. (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>

- 지퍼가 고장(이) 났네요. (honourific by '요')

- 지퍼가 고장(이) 났어요. (honourific by '요')

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>

- 지퍼가 고장(이) 났습니다. (formal; more honourific by '스')

[explanations]

* 지퍼 : zipper

* -가 : a particle makes 지퍼 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a vowel

* 고장  [故障] trouble; a breakdown; [=결함] defect; something wrong

- 기계[엔진 / 전화]의 고장 : mechanical[engine / telephone] trouble

- 전기의 고장 : an electricity failure

- 고장 없이 : without trouble / smoothly / well / all right

* -이 : a particle makes 고장 subjective after a words ends in a consonant

* 나다 : [=발생하다] happen; come to pass[happen]; come about; occur; take place; turn up; break out; rise; arise; spring[come] up

* 난 : past tense of 나다 by '-ㄴ'

* 고장 난 : broken (machine etc)

* 났다 : past tense of 나다 by ‘-았-‘

* 났습니다 : 났(the stem of 났다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -다 / -네 / -어 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix

* a verb + -네 / -어 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix

* a verb + -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '스' / '-ㅂ'

* 옷 : clothes; garment

* 등 : and so on; etc

* 끼다 [=끼이다] be put between; be held between; be caught in; get jammed in; be trapped

* 끼게 : an adverb form of 끼다 / 끼이다

* 하다 : do; make

* [옷 등] 끼게 하다 = 끼우다 : trap