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In English, its own tendency to make small or minimize without loss of meaning in English:
The road (going towards) home.
The road (towards) home.
The road home.
Typical in American English, not sure about Europeans.
NOTE
A road cannot move; the road isn't going home (as in "the road is moving to the house itself"). The subject for "가-" is omitted. Here, "집으로 가는 길" literally translates to "the road along which one goes home".
간 is the past determiner form.
- -는/은: present determiner
- -ㄴ/는: past determiner
- -ㄹ/를: future determiner
As for action verbs, only -는 is a present form, and -ㄴ and -은 are past forms.
I'm keeping in mind that these spelled and sound alike grammar descriptive verbal parts are not the particles we use directly on nouns in the subject object topic lessons.
Another example of the need for context. You could compose a sentence where 지브로 간 길 would indeed translate "the road home." He chose the wrong road home. 집으로 간 길 잘못 걸렸다. The road home was the last road he ever traveled. 집으로 간 길은 마지막이였다.
"He chose the wrong road home." would be "집으로 가는 길을 잘못 들었다." Relative tense is used in the Korean language.
"the road going to the house" is the correct answer, but not "the way going..." or the more natural "the road leading to the house"? and when i skip answering i get "the road home" as correct answer?
Both "the way going to the house" and "the road leading to the house" are now accepted.
Thank you also for stating "the road home" is the primary translation and affirming the others as meaningful alternative translations.
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For some reason 길 sounds somewhere between 그 and g/k + English "i" as in "bit" (IPA [ɪ]).
