는지

neunji

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Also spelled nunji

Whether or how - left hanging

Wraps a question inside a sentence when the verb is an action: how much money we spent on these ice creams, when it happened, what particle she used. In these lines it also ends the sentence outright and leaves the question hanging, which is the voice of interview captions and narration — how was the action rehearsal, why am I doing this here. Its partner ㄴ지 does the same for descriptions and nouns; the split is only about what comes in front of it.

Register: neutral; trailing use is interview and caption style

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이제 하고 싶은 말이 많아졌