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-(으)ㄴ/는데도: Despite, Even Though
2024-12-09
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Example Sentences#

  1. “내가 두 개씩 먹었는데도, 네가 아무 말이 없었잖아.1
    “Even though I ate two at a time, you didn’t say anything.
    • 먹다 means ‘to eat’.
    • is a past tense marker.
    • -는데도 is a connective ending formed by -는데, which is used to connect clauses while adding contrast or introducing new information, and , which means ‘even’ or ‘also’; together, -는데도 indicates that the following situation occurs despite the preceding situation.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from Lazaro And The Blind Man.

-(으)ㄴ/는데도: Despite, Even Though
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/grammar/-으ㄴ-는데도-despite-even-though/
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2024-12-09