She did not want you to be alone in Korean 🇰🇷

Sentence info.

The sentence can be broken down into three main parts:

1. Subject Marker and Topic – "나는"
 – "나" means “I” and “는” is the topic marker, indicating who is doing the wanting.
  • Romanized: na-neun

2. The Embedded Clause – "당신이 혼자가 되기를"
 a. "당신이": "당신" means “you” and “이” is the subject marker for the subordinate clause.
  • Romanized: dangsin-i
 b. "혼자가": "혼자" means “alone” and “가” is the subject marker within the clause (“alone” is treated like a subject of the verb “되다” – “to become”).
  • Romanized: honjaga
 c. "되기를": This comes from "되다" meaning “to become.” The ending “-기” nominalizes the verb (turns it into a noun clause expressing “becoming”) and “-를” marks the clause as the object of the main verb “원하다” (“to want”).
  • Romanized: doe-gi-reul

3. Main Verb in Negative Form – "원하지 않았습니다"
 – "원하다" means “to want.” In its negative past polite form “원하지 않았습니다,” it indicates that the subject did not want that the subordinate clause happen.
  • Romanized: wonhaji an-assseubnida

Tip: To remember this structure, note that when expressing desires for someone else to become something, Korean often uses an embedded clause with the verb in nominalized “-기” form followed by the object marker “-를.” The subject of that clause gets its own subject marker even if it appears to be the subject of the whole sentence.

Alternate ways to say “She did not want you to be alone”:
• "그녀는 당신이 혼자가 되기를 원하지 않았습니다."
  – Romanized: geunyeoneun dangsin-i honjaga doe-gi-reul wonhaji an-assseubnida
• "그녀는 당신이 혼자 남기를 바라지 않았습니다."
  – Romanized: geunyeoneun dangsin-i honja nam-gi-reul baraji an-assseubnida

Both alternatives convey that she did not wish for you to be alone, with the second option using a different verb (바라다 – “to hope/want”).

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