Example Sentences#

1. 원하던 세상은 없었다고¹
   The world I wanted never existed.
   • 원하다 means ‘to want’ or ‘to wish’.
   • -던 is derived from -더-, a retrospective suffix conveying past personal experience or observation, combined with the adnominal modifier -ㄴ. It functions as an adnominal modifier, signifying a recalled or habitual past action that was incomplete or ongoing, often with a nuance of personal memory or experience.