Example Sentences#

1. 그들은 여자를 만지지 않기로 다짐했기 때문이다.¹
   They had promised not to touch a woman.
   • 만지다 means ‘to touch’.
   • -지 않다 is a negation pattern, with 지 attached to the verb stem and 않다 as an auxiliary verb for negation.
2. “스님, 우리는 여자를 만지지 않기로 했는데, 어떻게 그 여자를 들어 건너셨습니까?”¹
   “We promised not to touch a woman. How could you carry her across the river?”
   • 만지다 means ‘to touch’.
   • -지 않다 is a negation pattern, with 지 attached to the verb stem and 않다 as an auxiliary verb for negation.