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듣다

deutda

to listen, to hear

Part of speech · verb

Pattern visualization

Syllable → jamo breakdown (RR romanization)
dinitial+eumedial+tfinal
dinitial+amedial

Examples

  1. 저는 음악을 들어요.
    I listen to music.
  2. 어제 라디오를 들었어요.
    I listened to the radio yesterday.

Collocations

음악을 듣다이야기를 듣다잘 듣다

Mnemonic

deutda "to listen, to hear" is a classic digeut-irregular verb. Before a vowel ending, the stem-final consonant (romanized d/t, the digeut) shifts to an r/l sound: deut- plus -eoyo becomes deureoyo, not deuteoyo. Before a consonant it stays put, as in deutgo.

Quick check

  1. What is the present polite form of deutda?

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