Example Sentences#

1. 처음에는 너무 넓어서 두려웠고, 계속 달리기만 했어.¹
   At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, and I kept running and running.
   • 두렵다 means ‘to be afraid’.
   • 었 is a past tense marker.
   • -고 is a connective ending used to link two actions or states, meaning ‘and’, or to join the main verb to auxiliary verbs.
2. 떨어질까 두려운 꽃잎을 꽉 쥐고²
   Clutching petals, afraid they might fall
   • 두렵다 means ‘to be fearful’.
   • -ㄴ is a modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.