Example Sentences#

1. 얼마 지나지 않아 전쟁이 일어났고, 젊은이들이 군대로 갔습니다.¹
   Not long after, war broke out, and the young men went to the army.
   • 일어나다 means ‘to happen’ or ‘to break out’.
   • 았 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.