ㄴ다고 하다

ndagohada

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Also spelled ndagoada

says that (present-tense action)

Reports a statement whose verb is a plain present-tense action: you say you eat medicine rather than drink it, you use this particle here, he said he has to film. It is the same reporting machinery as 다고 하다, which is used after describing words and past tenses, and 라고 하다, which is used after nouns — the split is purely about what precedes it. Spoken Korean crushes it into short endings, so the sign in one clip "says welcome" in three syllables, and past reports come out as "you said you'd come back".

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