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-(으)ㄹ 겸 (해서): Expressing Multiple Purposes
2024-12-09
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Example Sentences#

  1. 요즘 스트레스도 풀 겸.1
    It’s also to relieve some stress these days.
    • is a bound noun used to indicate that one action or entity serves multiple purposes or functions.
    • -ㄹ 겸 (해서) is a grammar pattern used to convey two or more purposes for an action. 해서 (composed of 하다, meaning ‘to do’, and -여서, a connective ending that indicates a sequence of related events or cause and effect) is often omitted. In this context, the primary purpose, already stated in the preceding sentence, is also omitted after -ㄹ 겸.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from A Fun Weekend Ahead.

-(으)ㄹ 겸 (해서): Expressing Multiple Purposes
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/grammar/-으ㄹ-겸-해서-expressing-multiple-purposes/
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Korean Story Lab
Published at
2024-12-09