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-고 나면: If/Once One Finishes Doing
2025-02-26
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Example Sentences#

  1. 걷고 나면 보이는 길은 왜일까1
    Why do the roads only reveal themselves after I walk?
    • 나다 means ‘to occur’ and can function as an auxiliary verb used when the action of the preceding statement has been completed.
    • is a conditional ending meaning ‘if’ or ‘when’.
    • Together, -고 나면 forms a construction meaning ‘if/once the preceding action is completed’.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from A New Beginning.

-고 나면: If/Once One Finishes Doing
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/grammar/-고-나면-if-once-one-finishes-doing/
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Korean Story Lab
Published at
2025-02-26