은지 알다

eunjialda

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Also spelled unjialda

know why, what, or how much

A question word plus -(으)ㄴ지 makes an embedded question, and 알다 says whether the answer is known. Most of these lines are rhetorical set-ups rather than real questions: 나 지금 뭐 먹고 싶은지 알아? is not asking you to guess, it is announcing that you're about to be told. The other common shape is the penny dropping — 이게 왜 인기가 많은지 알겠다...! (now I see why this is so popular).

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