What is the verb base for 지냈어요?

Question

What is the verb base for the word 지냈어요 ? And what is the definition?

This is seen a lot in "How are you?" phrase. 잘 지냈어요?

I want to understand the verb base.

Answer 1

If you only want to know the meaning of "잘 지냈어요?" 잘 means "well", and 지냈어요 is 지내다 + 었어요.(Past tense), where 지내다 means "to live". Conbined these two together, it represents the meaning of "How have you been?"