Example Sentences#

1. 얼마 지나지 않아 전쟁이 일어났고, 젊은이들이 군대로 갔습니다.¹
   Not long after, war broke out, and the young men went to the army.
   • 젊은이 is a compound noun made up of 젊다 (to be young) and the noun-forming suffix -이, meaning ‘young person’.
   • 들 is a plural marker.
   • 이 is a subject marker that identifies the noun as the entity that performs an action or is in a particular state.