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검다: Vocabulary #363

Example Sentences#

  1. 우리는 끝없는 검은 바다 한가운데 있는 고요한 무지의 섬에 살고 있으며, 멀리 나가는 것은 우리에게 맞지 않았습니다.1
    We live on a quiet island of ignorance in the middle of an endless black sea, and it was not meant for us to venture far.
    • 검다 means ‘to be black’.
    • -은 is a modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from The Call Of Cthulhu Opening Story.

검다: Vocabulary #363
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/vocabulary/검다/
Author
Korean Story Lab
Published at
2026-03-19
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