Example Sentences#

1. 사랑이 환상일지라도¹
   Even if love is just an illusion
   • 사랑 means ‘love’.
   • 이 is a subject marker that identifies the noun as the entity that performs an action or is in a particular state.
2. 저는 인류 전체를 사랑할수록 특정 사람을 덜 사랑하게 됩니다.²
   The more I love humanity, the less I come to love any particular person.
   • 사랑하다 means ‘to love’.
   • 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)’.
3. 하지만 특정 사람을 미워할수록 인류 전체를 더욱 사랑하게 되는 것은 언제나 그래왔습니다.²
   But the more I hate any particular person, the more I come to love humanity as a whole, and it has always been so.
   • 사랑하다 means ‘to love’.
   • -게 is a connective ending that turns the preceding clause into an adverbial modifier, indicating the purpose, result, manner, or degree of the action or state described in the following clause. Its meaning varies with the construction that follows, such as causation with -게 하다 or a change of state with -게 되다.