(Estimated reading time: 4.5 minutes) It’s been a looooong time since I’ve written about something that is not a Grammar or Vocabulary entry. So I just thought of writing this short piece about comparing studying Korean in a school and…
하긴 (ha-gin) – do/did something/the act of doing OR in fact/indeed/actually Let’s look at the first meaning, which is actually just a short form of 하기는, which means to do or did something, or just referring to the act of…
관두다 (gwan-du-da) – forget it/give up/quit/done (putting up with it) First of all, 관두다 is actually a short form of 그만두다, which essentially means the same thing – to quit, give up or stop. We won’t usually see this in…
그러고 보니 (geu-reo-go-bo-ni) – come to think of it/now that I look at it This phrase is commonly used in daily conversations and I found out about it while reading a Naver Webtoon! We can look at it as some…
~든(지) (~deun(-ji)) – regardless/no matter (or not) This grammar particle is most commonly attached to nouns like 누구 (who), 어디 (where), 언제 (when), 뭐 (what) and 어느 (which). Another common use is to attach ~든(지) to verbs to have the…
~더라(고) (~deo-ra-go) – I’ve personally experienced/learned/knew/discovered/realised about…. This grammar particle is almost always only attached to express the speaker’s (first person’s) experience, quite similar to [Grammar] ~네. Therefore, when we add ~더라 at the end, it is only to express the…
