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Korean Phrasebook
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  • -년생person born in year ...
  • -는 것added to verb stem to make noun with various meanings: the act of..., the thing that you..., what I ...
  • -는 줄 알다To express your knowledge or assumption about a present action
  • -는 한이 있더라도structure used when you want to say “even if that means I have to...” or “even if I end up ...-ing ...”
  • -는대요 / -이래요endings added “They say ...”, “I hear that ...”, or how to re-tell someone what you’ve heard from someone else
  • -다가Verb ending very commonly used in Korean when you talk about gradual transition from one action to another or one situation to another.
  • -다고ending used with verbs when quoting
  • -다니까(요)ending to say things like “I said so!”, “I told you!”, “I told you that this is...”, or “I said that I am ...”, repeating and emphasizing what you have already said before
  • -단a team, a band, a party, a group (suffix)
  • -달months *PURE
  • -달라dollars *SINO
  • -당per, (not 꼴)
  • -대vehicles, machines *PURE
  • -더니verb ending used when you are describing what happened in relation to your discovery of a fact.
  • -던verb ending that you states that you “used to” do or be something
  • -던verb ending to add the nuance of “used to” or “was doing but didn’t finish”
  • -더􏰋라?You can add this at the end of the verb stem of an action verb to say “I forgot. What was it that ...?”.
  • -데place, spot
  • -도degrees *SINO
  • -도록to the extent of...
  • -도록verb ending which means “so that”, “in a way that” or sometimes “to the point where” in Korean.
  • -들plural particle
  • -들- s, es (plural form)
  • -들plural form
  • -라고ending used with nouns when quoting