-던

던 Korean Etymology Equivalent to ko -더-<type:suf> retrospective suffix -ㄴ past/realis adnominal suffix, but it retains the older imperfective sense of ko -더-, not its modern and more nuanced "retrospective" sense. Suffix suffix The imperfective adnominal marker, used to make verbs and adjectives attribute nouns: After verb stems, indicates an action or state which was interrupted and hence not completed. ko 내-가 어제 먹던 케이크 the cake I was eating yesterday [but I did not eat all of it] After verb stems, indicates an event in the past which happened on a regular basis, but does not continue now. ko 비-가 오면 나가 걷곤 하던 대나무 숲-길 the lane in the bamboo grove I used to walk along when it rained After adjective stems, indicates a state which no longer exists. ko 아름다웠던 내 고향 my hometown which was once beautiful ko inflectional suffixes