Example Sentences#

1. 익숙한 고요 속 작은 목소리¹
   A faint voice in the familiar silence
   • 고요 means ‘silence’ or ‘stillness’.
2. 우리는 끝없는 검은 바다 한가운데 있는 고요한 무지의 섬에 살고 있으며, 멀리 나가는 것은 우리에게 맞지 않았습니다.²
   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.
   • 고요하다 means ‘to be quiet’ or ‘to be calm’.
   • -ㄴ is a modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.
3. 고요한 마을에는 타로라는 성실한 돌을 다듬는 사람이 살고 있었습니다.³
   In a quiet village, there lived a diligent stone carver named Taro.
   • 고요하다 means ‘to be quiet’ or ‘to be calm’.
   • -ㄴ is a modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.
4. 고요한 물결처럼 마음을 채워가¹
   Like gentle waves, gradually filling my heart
   • 고요하다 means ‘to be calm’ or ‘to be quiet’.
   • -ㄴ is a modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.