deon

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Also spelled don

recalls something past or habitual

Sits in front of a noun and paints it with a remembered past: 예전에 가던 그 냉삼 is "that grilled-pork place we used to go to", 안 하던 걸 is "something I didn't normally do". It carries the flavour of personal recollection, and often of something habitual or left unfinished. The very frequent -았던/-었던 (좋았던 추억, "memories that were good") pins the thing firmly in the past and closed off. The plain past modifier -은 just says it happened; -던 says the speaker was there and is looking back on it.

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