거든

geodeun

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Also spelled godun

See, here is the background

Most lines here are the casual sentence-ender that supplies a fact or reason the listener did not know, as in I left it right here, or I am quite proud of my pork ribs. The rest of the sentence often gets tacked on after it, which is normal in relaxed speech. Two lines show a different, old-fashioned 거든 meaning if or when, the one used in proverbs and fairy-tale instructions: if you find yourself in trouble, open the stopper; if you do not know the person, look at his friends.

Register: casual for the explaining use; proverbial for the 'if' use

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