Monday, February 05, 2007
Last week or maybe the week before in class we went over ~던데요/~고 하던데요. I have no problem conjugating or using this structure except that I can’t really figure out what it means. The text book includes this explanation in English:
~던데요is used when informing someone of what was made known from personal experience or observation.
[마이클 씨 안나 씨가 도서관에셔 공부하고있는 것을 봤다].
다게시: 마이클씨, 안나 씨가 지금 어디에 있는지 아세요?
마이클: 안나 씨는 도서관에서 고부 하던데요.
This seems straitforward enough with the last sentence probably meaning I saw Anna studying in the library.
This also matches up with the The Green Book’s explanation.
~*던데요: I noticed/observed that…
여름에 아리조나가 아주 덥던대됴.
I noticed that Arizona is very hot in the summer.
Though in this case it is used at the end of the sentence rather than as a conjunction.
In Korean Grammar for International Learners (I have an older edition than the one in the link), there is a rather cryptic explanation:
The content of the second clause is induced from the first clause which is a recollection of a past event related with the content of the second clause.
그 색이 잘 어울리시던데, 바꿔 입으쎴군요.
I don’t understand this last sentence at all, nor see how it fits in with the other examples above. Additionally when I encounter this grammar I’m not sure exactly how to understand it. I’ve been noticing it quite a bit, but when I do I don’t understand what is said. Obviously I’m not ready to use it in natural speech, but I would like to understand it when I hear it.
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