Example Sentences#

1. 나연: 야, 너 인스타 보니까 최근에 콘서트 갔다 왔더라?¹
   Nayeon: Hey, I saw on your Instagram that you went to a concert recently?
   • 오다 means ‘to come’.
   • 갔다(가) 오다 is a construction meaning ‘to go and come back’, emphasizing the completion of a round trip and often corresponding to ‘have been to’ in English.
   • -았- is a past tense marker.
   • -더라 is a grammar pattern used to state a fact the speaker has realized through personal experience or observation, often conveying a sense of newfound understanding. It’s composed of -더- (a retrospective suffix conveying past personal experience or observation) and -라 (an exclamatory declarative sentence-ending used to state a fact or observation).