Example Sentences#

1. 누구보다 너희가 소중했으니까¹
   Because you were more precious to me than anyone.

   • 누구 is a pronoun used to refer to an unknown or unspecified person, typically meaning ‘who’ or ‘anyone’ depending on context.
   • 보다 is a particle meaning ‘than’, marking the subject against which something else is compared. It defaults to implying a greater degree (더, more) unless explicitly stated otherwise with 덜 (less).

2. 곶감이 나보다 더 무섭구나!”²
   A dried persimmon must be scarier than me!”

   • 나 is the informal first-person pronoun meaning ‘I’.
   • 보다 is a particle meaning ‘than’, marking the subject against which something else is compared. It defaults to implying a greater degree (더, more) unless explicitly stated otherwise with 덜 (less).