This is the 10866th most frequent Korean word.
그였다
"그였다" means "It was him" in English.
Here, '그였다' is used in a question requiring confirmation, framed within a context indicating a past tense identification of 'he'.
그였다가 아닌 다른 사람인가요?
Is it someone other than him?
In this sentence, '그였다' expresses a definitive attribution in past tense to 'he' as the subject.
지난 봄, 그녀의 구세주는 바로 그였다.
Last spring, her savior was him.
Here, '그였다' finalizes the recognition of 'he' as the hero through past tense identification.