다고 하다

dagohada

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Also spelled dagoada

says/said that (reported)

Reports someone else's statement: he said the skin was good, they said it's low-calorie, we said the two verbs carry the meaning STOP. This is the form used after adjectives, after past-tense verbs, and after the verb for existing; a plain present-tense verb takes ㄴ다고 하다 and a noun takes 라고 하다 instead. In speech it collapses into short endings, so one line here squeezes "he said his grandfather was here" into a single verb. It also reports stated intentions, as with the man who announced he would try to run the company.

Register: neutral; extremely common in conversation

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