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보다: Comparative Particle "Than"
2025-05-31
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Example Sentences#

  1. 누구보다 너희가 소중했으니까1
    Because you were more precious to me than anyone.

    • 누구 is a pronoun used to refer to an unknown or unspecified person, typically meaning ‘who’ or ‘anyone’ depending on context.
    • 보다 is a particle meaning ‘than’, marking the subject against which something else is compared. It defaults to implying a greater degree (, more) unless explicitly stated otherwise with (less).
  2. 곶감이 나보다 더 무섭구나!”2
    A dried persimmon must be scarier than me!”

    • is the informal first-person pronoun meaning ‘I’.
    • 보다 is a particle meaning ‘than’, marking the subject against which something else is compared. It defaults to implying a greater degree (, more) unless explicitly stated otherwise with (less).

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from The Red Ribbon.

  2. Sentence from The Tiger And The Dried Persimmon.

보다: Comparative Particle "Than"
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