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This study has its aim in noting the changes in the grammatical characteristics of the ending 'key' by observing its various usages. For this purpose, previous researches on the ending 'key' were referenced, and thereby this study took the perspective of looking at 'key' as an adverbial ending. This study specifically observed the combined forms of the ending 'key' through spoken language corpuses, since previous studies failed to show practicality because they were done by using artificial sentences. Consequently, the ending 'key', when combined with verb stems, became an adverbial ending. But combined with adjective stems it strongly showed the characteristics of derivational affixes. Thereby this study acknowledges the possibility that the ending 'key' could become an adverbalized derivational affix like the adverbial stem '-i'. Since the scale of the corpus was small, this study lacks in the fact that it was not able to show the general aspects of the ending 'key. However it was able to show the derivational affixes of the ending 'key' through specific spoken word references.