No. 10,866 in Korean
그였다
"그였다" means "It was him" in English.
In a sentence
그였다가 아닌 다른 사람인가요?
Is it someone other than him?
Here, '그였다' is used in a question requiring confirmation, framed within a context indicating a past tense identification of 'he'.
지난 봄, 그녀의 구세주는 바로 그였다.
Last spring, her savior was him.
In this sentence, '그였다' expresses a definitive attribution in past tense to 'he' as the subject.
내가 알고 있는 영웅은 결국 그였다.
The hero I knew turned out to be him after all.
Here, '그였다' finalizes the recognition of 'he' as the hero through past tense identification.
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