Example Sentences#

1. “여기에는 어떤 사람들이 살고 있나요?”¹
   “What kind of people live here?”
   • 어떤 is a determiner meaning ‘what kind of’. It is derived from 어떻다, meaning ‘to be how’ or ‘to be in what state’, combined with the modifier ㄴ, which turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.