Example Sentences#

1. 우리는 끝없는 검은 바다 한가운데 있는 고요한 무지의 섬에 살고 있으며, 멀리 나가는 것은 우리에게 맞지 않았습니다.¹
   We live on a quiet island of ignorance in the middle of an endless black sea, and it was not meant for us to venture far.
   • 나가다 is a compound verb formed by 나다 (to emerge, appear, or occur) and 가다 (to go), meaning ‘to go out’.
   • -는 is a present tense modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.