Example Sentences#

1. “네가 오후 네 시에 온다면, 나는 세 시부터 벌써 행복해지기 시작할 거야.¹
   “If you come at four in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to feel happy.
   • 행복하다 means ‘to be happy’.
   • -여지다 is a grammar pattern used to indicate that someone or something gradually becomes the state mentioned in the preceding statement.
   • -기 is a nominalizing suffix, turning the verb into a noun form.
2. 오래오래 행복하게 살아줘²
   Live long, long happy lives.
   • 행복하다 means ‘to be happy’.
   • -게 is an adverb-forming suffix.
3. 행복의 대가를 알게 될 거야.¹
   I shall come to know the price of happiness.
   • 행복 means ‘happiness’.
   • 의 is a possessive marker.