Example Sentences#

1. “내가 장주로서 나비가 되는 꿈을 꾼 것일까?¹
   “Did I, as Zhuang Zhou, dream of becoming a butterfly?
   • 꾸다 means ‘to dream’.
   • -ㄴ is a past tense modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.
2. 아니면 나비가 지금 자신이 장주라는 꿈을 꾸고 있는 것일까?”¹
   Or is the butterfly now dreaming that it is Zhuang Zhou?”
   • 꾸다 means ‘to dream’.
   • -고 is a connective ending used to link two actions or states, meaning ‘and’, or to join the main verb to auxiliary verbs.