ㄴ 거 같다

ngeogatda

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Also spelled ngogatda

'I think it's / it seems (already)'

This softens a claim about how things are or how they turned out: 그 편견이 여기와서 좀 많이 사라진거 같아요 'I think a lot of that prejudice fell away once I got here', 마스초코를 동그랗게 만든거 같아요 'it's like a Mars bar rolled into balls.' Koreans use it far more than English speakers say 'I think', because stating a bare opinion can sound pushy. For something still going on, the form is -는 거 같다; for a guess about the future, -ㄹ 거 같다.

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