Example Sentences#

1. 우린 그저 다른 감옥에 갇혔을 뿐¹
   We were simply trapped in different prisons.
   • 갇히다 means ‘to be trapped’ or ‘to be confined’. It is the passive form of 가두다 (to confine), formed by adding the passive suffix -히-.
   • 었 is a past tense marker.
   • -을 is a modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun, conveying assumption, intention, or possibility and including future, potential, or unrealized actions and states.