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-째: Suffix Indicating Ordinal Numbers
2024-12-09
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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 the order or relative position of an object. It is composed of , a counter for occurrences meaning ‘time’ or ‘instance’, and -째, a suffix indicating ordinal numbers, which specifies the ‘nth time’.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from The Stonecutter Journey Story.

-째: Suffix Indicating Ordinal Numbers
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/grammar/-째-suffix-indicating-ordinal-numbers/
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Korean Story Lab
Published at
2024-12-09