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안: Adverbial Negation
2025-09-06
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Example Sentences#

  1. “호랑이도 무서워하는 아기가 곶감은 무서워하네?1
    “So a baby who isn’t even scared of a tiger is afraid of a dried persimmon?

    • is a negation adverb meaning ‘not’, used before verbs to negate them.
  2. 너 진짜 밥 먹고 사는 거 아니야?2
    Are you really living without eating proper meals?

    • is a negation adverb meaning ‘not’, used before verbs to negate them.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from The Tiger And The Dried Persimmon.

  2. Sentence from What Is On The Menu Tonight.

안: Adverbial Negation
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