Example Sentences#

1. 차라리 카페 가서 수다 떠는 게 낫지 않아?¹
   Wouldn’t it be better to go to a cafe and chat instead?
   • 떨다 typically means ‘to tremble’ or ‘to shake’. However, it can also mean ‘to repeat a certain act lightly and carelessly’. In the idiomatic expression 수다를 떨다, meaning ‘to chat’ or ‘to engage in casual conversation’, 떨다 takes on this latter, figurative meaning.
   • 는 is a present tense modifier that makes the preceding statement function as an adnominal phrase describing the following noun.