Example Sentences#

1. 그의 첫 번째 소원은 부자가 되는 것이었습니다.¹
   His first wish was to become rich.
   • 번째 is a dependent noun used to express ordinal position in a sequence. It is composed of 번, meaning ‘time’ or ‘occurrence’ and used to count occurrences of an event or to mark a specific instance in a sequence, and -째, a suffix indicating ordinal numbers, which specifies the ‘nth time’.