Breakdown of daehageseo mannan seonbaega nae jeongong chaegeul billyeojwosseo.
~을~eul
object particle
~에서~eseo
location particle
책chaek
book
만나다mannada
to meet
Questions & Answers about daehageseo mannan seonbaega nae jeongong chaegeul billyeojwosseo.
Why does 만난 come before 선배?
In Korean, a verb can go directly before a noun to describe it. This is like a relative clause in English.
- 만난 선배 = the senior / upperclassman that I met
- The verb 만나다 (to meet) becomes 만난 to modify the noun.
So:
- 대학에서 만난 선배 = the senior I met at university
This structure is extremely common in Korean:
- 어제 본 영화 = the movie I saw yesterday
- 제가 읽은 책 = the book I read
Why is 만난 in the past form?
Because it describes a completed action: the meeting already happened.
- 만난 선배 does not mean the whole sentence is in past because of that form.
- It means the senior whom I met.
The main verb of the sentence is 빌려줬어, and that is also in the past tense, so the full sentence describes a past event: someone lent the speaker a book.
What does 대학에서 mean here, and why is it 에서 instead of 에?