Example Sentences#

1. 어느 날, 라사로와 맹인은 알모록스라는 마을에 도착했다.¹
   One day, Lazaro and the blind man arrived in a village called Almorox.

   • 알모록스 is the Korean transliteration of ‘Almorox,’ a place name.
   • 라는 is derived from the structure -(이)라고 하는, where 이다 is the copula ‘to be’, 라고 is a quotative particle, 하다 means ‘to say’ (derived from 말하다), and 는 is a present tense modifier that makes the preceding statement function as an adnominal phrase describing the following noun. This structure effectively translates to ‘that is said to be’, implying ‘called’ or ‘named’.

2. 고요한 마을에는 타로라는 성실한 돌을 다듬는 사람이 살고 있었습니다.²
   In a quiet village, there lived a diligent stone carver named Taro.

   • 타로 is a proper noun.
   • 라는 is derived from the structure -(이)라고 하는, where 이다 is the copula ‘to be’, 라고 is a quotative particle, 하다 means ‘to say’ (derived from 말하다), and 는 is a present tense modifier that makes the preceding statement function as an adnominal phrase describing the following noun. This structure effectively translates to ‘that is said to be’, implying ‘called’ or ‘named’.