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조차: Particle Meaning "Even"
2024-12-09
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Example Sentences#

  1. 하지만 저는 다른 사람과 함께 방 안에서 이틀 동안 지내는 것조차 견딜 수 없습니다.1
    But I can’t even endure staying with other people in a room for two days.
    • is a bound noun meaning ‘thing’, often used with modifiers to nominalize the preceding clause or phrase.
    • 조차 is a particle meaning ‘even’, used to emphasize the extremity or unexpectedness of the statement.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from Father Zossima Counsel Story.

조차: Particle Meaning "Even"
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Korean Story Lab
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2024-12-09