냐 그러다

nyageureoda

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Also spelled nyaguroda

ask '…?'

-냐 is the blunt question ending and 그러다 quotes it — the colloquial stand-in for -냐고 하다 'ask': 고향이 어디냐 그러면 서울이라고 대답하세요 'if they ask where you're from, say Seoul', 차비를 빌려줄 수 있냐 그러면서 'asking whether I could lend him the fare'. It also reports a nagging or a challenge: 뭐가 그렇게 배고프냐 그러더니 'they kept going on about why I'm always so hungry'.

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