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소중하다: Vocabulary #614

Example Sentences#

  1. 잃어버린 것만 소중하게 남아1
    Only what’s lost remains precious
    • 소중하다 means ‘to be precious’ or ‘to be valuable’.
    • -게 is an adverb-forming suffix.
  2. 누구보다 너희가 소중했으니까2
    Because you were more precious to me than anyone.
    • 소중하다 means ‘to be precious’ or ‘to be valuable’.
    • is a past tense marker.
    • (으)니까 is a connective ending used to indicate the cause or reason for an action, emphasizing the speaker’s subjective reasoning or justification that leads to the resulting action or decision.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from A New Beginning.

  2. Sentence from The Red Ribbon.

소중하다: Vocabulary #614
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/vocabulary/소중하다/
Author
Korean Story Lab
Published at
2026-03-19
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