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marks what something becomes or isn't

A one-letter tag placed on a consonant-ending noun when the sentence says something becomes it or is not it: 가족이 되어 is "becoming family", 빵이 아닌 is "not bread", 꽝이 아니라 is "not a dud but…". English has no equivalent word; it simply signals which noun 되다 ("become") or 아니다 ("is not") is pointing at. Nouns ending in a vowel take 가 in exactly this slot instead. It looks identical to the subject marker 이, and learners mix them up — here the noun is not the doer, it is what the doer turns into or fails to be.

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