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-던: Retrospective Adnominal Modifier
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- 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.
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-던: Retrospective Adnominal Modifier
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/grammar/-던-retrospective-adnominal-modifier/