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person

1.Bound noun

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    A bound noun that is an honorific term of addressing another person.

    Korean definition: 사람을 높여 이르는 말.

    • The person coming over there is our teacher.

    • My parents got married through an introduction by someone they knew.

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    person

    A bound noun that is an honorific form of a unit for counting the number of persons.

    Korean definition: 사람을 높여서 세는 단위.

    • My grandmother and grandfather, the two of them, live in the countryside.

    • Jisu asked one of the teachers about a problem she didn't know.

2.Bound nounSino-Korean: 分

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    minute

    A bound noun indicating a unit of time, which is one-sixtieth of an hour.

    Korean definition: 한 시간의 60분의 1을 나타내는 시간의 단위.

    • Writing about 60 characters of the report in an hour means writing almost one character per minute.

    • There were still ninety minutes, that is, an hour and a half, left until the time I was to meet Minjun.