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If It Were Possible -다면

Imagine you had a year free to live somewhere else. A hypothetical condition lets you explore the idea; a wish says what you would like to happen. Neither requires the plan to be settled.

Imagine the Condition

Present action verbs take -ㄴ다면 after a vowel and -는다면 after most consonants: 간다면, 먹는다면. Drop ㄹ before ㄴ: 살다 → 산다면. Adjectives take -다면, and nouns -(이)라면. Compared with -(으)면, this often makes an imagined premise more explicit; it need not be impossible.

sigani chungbunhadamyeon oegugeseo sara bogo sipeoyo.

If I had enough time, I’d like to try living abroad.

dasi yeohaengeul gandamyeon eodie gago sipeoyo?

If you travelled again, where would you like to go?

Say What You Hope Will Happen

Use -았/었으면 하다 for a hope: 만났으면 해요, 좋았으면 해요. Although the condition contains a past-shaped ending, the wish can concern the present or future. It overlaps with -(으)면 좋겠어요.

eonjenga segye iljureul haesseumyeon haeyo.

I hope to travel around the world someday.

uri gajogi modu geonganghaesseumyeon haeyo.

I hope everyone in my family stays healthy.

Hint · 힌트

For a noun hypothesis use 학생이라면, “if someone is a student,” rather than attaching the action-verb shape -는다면 to the noun. A past hypothesis uses -았/었다면: 시간이 있었다면, “if there had been time.”

Vocabulary

Korean	English
충분하다 chungbunhada	to be sufficient
외국 oeguk	foreign country
언젠가 eonjenga	someday
세계 일주 segye ilju	journey around the world
소망 somang	wish
건강하다 geonganghada	to be healthy
여건 yeogeon	circumstances
희망 huimang	hope
목표 mokpyo	goal
이루다 iruda	to accomplish
도전하다 dojeonhada	to take on a challenge
봉사 활동 bongsa hwaldong	volunteer work
해외 haeoe	overseas
캠핑카 kaempingka	camper van
패러글라이딩 paereogeullaiding	paragliding
마라톤 maraton	marathon
완주하다 wanjuhada	to finish a race
일상 ilsang	everyday life
벗어나다 beoseonada	to get away from
가능하다 ganeunghada	to be possible

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