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흔들리다: Vocabulary #606

Example Sentences#

  1. 가벼운 바람에도 흔들리는1
    A heart swayed by even the lightest breeze
    • 흔들리다 means ‘to sway’ or ‘to be shaken’. It is the passive/intransitive form of 흔들다 (to shake), formed by adding the passive suffix -리-.
    • -는 is a present tense modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.
  2. 흔들리는 지금조차 춤으로 바뀌어가1
    Even this trembling now turns into a dance
    • 흔들리다 means ‘to sway’ or ‘to be shaken’. It is the passive/intransitive form of 흔들다 (to shake), formed by adding the passive suffix -리-.
    • -는 is a present tense modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from Shattered Pieces Song. 2

흔들리다: Vocabulary #606
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Author
Korean Story Lab
Published at
2026-03-19
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