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blunt question ending; or A or B?

Ends a question in the bare plain style, with no softening at all — fine between close friends or from an older speaker downward, rude otherwise: 왜 이렇게 기냐? "why is this so long?", 나한테 말하냐 "are you talking to me?". Doubled up, it lays out a choice: 바나나스플릿이냐, 딸기셔벗이냐 "banana split, or strawberry sherbet?". It also appears inside the set-up phrase 뭐냐 하면, meaning here's what happened. Compare 어요?/나요?, which ask the same thing politely.

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가장 좋았던 건 뭐  하면