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끝나다: Vocabulary #556

2026-03-19
2026-05-31

Example Sentences#

  1. 이 모든 게 이어져, 끝나지 않는 춤1
    All of this connects, a never-ending dance
    • 끝나다 means ‘to end’ or ‘to finish’ in an intransitive sense. It is formed from 끝 (end) and 나다 (to emerge, appear, or occur), indicating that the action happens by itself without an external agent.
    • -지 않다 is a negation pattern, with 지 attached to the verb stem and 않다 as an auxiliary verb for negation.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from Like A Paper Boat Song. ↩

끝나다: Vocabulary #556
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/vocabulary/끝나다/
Author
Korean Story Lab
Published at
2026-03-19
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