끝: Vocabulary #586

Example Sentences#

1. 끝난 시간을 넘어 시작되는 순간들¹
   Moments arising beyond the end of time
   • 끝나다 means ‘to end’ or ‘to finish’ in an intransitive sense. It is formed from 끝 (end) and 나다 (to emerge, appear, or occur), indicating that the action happens by itself without an external agent.
   • -ㄴ is a past tense modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.
2. 그 끝엔 눈물의 바다뿐이었어²
   At the end, there was only an ocean of tears.
   • 끝 means ‘end’.
   • 엔 is a contraction of 에는, where 에 is a particle indicating location and 는 is a topic marker.