Example Sentences#

1. 익숙한 고요 속 작은 목소리¹
   A faint voice in the familiar silence
   • 목소리 means ‘voice’, composed of 목 (throat) and 소리 (sound).
2. 어느 저녁, 그는 오래된 나무 아래에서 쉬고 있을 때, 나뭇잎 사이로 신비한 목소리가 들려왔습니다.²
   One evening, while he was resting under an old tree, he heard a mysterious voice through the leaves.
   • 목소리 means ‘voice’, composed of 목 (throat) and 소리 (sound).
   • 가 is a subject marker that identifies the noun as the entity that performs an action or is in a particular state.
3. 그것은 숲의 오래된 영혼의 목소리였고, 타로에게 원하는 무엇이든 변할 수 있는 힘을 주겠다고 했습니다.²
   It was the voice of an old spirit of the forest, promising Taro the power to change anything he wanted.
   • 목소리 means ‘voice’, composed of 목 (throat) and 소리 (sound).
   • 이다 is the verb ‘to be’.
   • 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.