Example Sentences#

1. 이십사 시간 안에 저는 최고의 사람도 미워하기 시작합니다.¹
   Within twenty-four hours, I start to hate even the best of people:
   • 미워하다 means ‘to hate’. It is derived from the adjective 밉다 (to be hateful) using the pattern -어하다, which transforms adjectives into verbs to describe the feeling or perception of an emotion from an external viewpoint.
   • -기 is a nominalizing suffix, turning the verb into a noun form.
2. 하지만 특정 사람을 미워할수록 인류 전체를 더욱 사랑하게 되는 것은 언제나 그래왔습니다.¹
   But the more I hate any particular person, the more I come to love humanity as a whole, and it has always been so.
   • 미워하다 means ‘to hate’. It is derived from the adjective 밉다 (to be hateful) using the pattern -어하다, which transforms adjectives into verbs to describe the feeling or perception of an emotion from an external viewpoint.
   • ㄹ수록 is a grammar pattern indicating that as the extent of the preceding action or condition increases, the following statement changes accordingly. It means ‘the more (something happens)’.