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-곤 하다: Habitual Action
2024-12-09
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Example Sentences#

  1. 꿈속에서 저는 종종 인류를 위해 봉사할 계획을 세우곤 합니다.1
    In my dreams, I often make plans to serve humanity.
    • 세우다 means ‘to set up’ or ‘to establish’.
    • -곤 하다 is an expression used to indicate that the same situation occurs repeatedly. It is a contraction of -고는 하다, which combines the conjunctive particle -고, the topic marker -는 (highlighting the action as a characteristic topic), and the auxiliary verb 하다 (to do), conveying the nuance of repeated or habitual occurrence.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from Father Zossima Counsel Story.

-곤 하다: Habitual Action
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2024-12-09