Example Sentences#

1. 고요한 마을에는 타로라는 성실한 돌을 다듬는 사람이 살고 있었습니다.¹
   In a quiet village, there lived a diligent stone carver named Taro.
   • 다듬다 means ‘to shape’ or ‘to trim’.
   • -는 is a present tense modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.
2. 한 돌을 다듬는 사람이 그의 큰 몸을 천천히 깎고 있었습니다.¹
   A stone carver was slowly carving his large body.
   • 다듬다 means ‘to polish’.
   • -는 is a present tense modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.