냐 하다

nyahada

Patternheard in 466 videos · 605 times

Also spelled nyaada

poses a question, then answers it

A speaker's way of introducing an explanation: they ask the question out loud and then answer it themselves. Every line here is the 하면 shape — 뭐냐 하면, 이 케이크 어떻게 여냐 하면, 제가 왜 그걸 기억하냐 하면 — which works like English 'as for what it was...' or 'the thing is.' The frozen word 왜냐하면 'because' is this same pattern with 왜, and it appears here too. It is a narration device, not a real question: the speaker never waits for an answer.

Register: spoken narration, casual to polite

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