왔다

In a sentence

• 그는 어제 서울에 왔다.

  He came to Seoul yesterday.

  Here, the word '왔다' is the past tense form of '오다' (to come), and it indicates the action of arriving at a place from a previous location.

• 드디어 봄이 왔다.

  Finally, spring has arrived.

  In this usage, '왔다' is still the past tense form of '오다' but is used metaphorically to indicate the changing seasons.

• 운동회에서 제가 일등으로 왔다.

  At the sports day, I came in first place.

  '왔다' here represents achieving a specified result (coming in first place) in the context of an event.