V/A+ 는다고/ㄴ다고/다고 해서

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위 내시경 검사를 하신다고 하셨지요?
Did you say you are here for a gastroscopy?
네, 여기서는 수면 내시경 검사를 한다고 해서 그걸로 하려고요.
Yes, they said they do a sleep endoscopy here, so I am here for that.
대장 내시경 검사는 안 하세요?
You’re not having a colonoscopy?
그건 생각 안 해 봤어요.
I did not think about that.
1시간 정도 전신 마취하는 거라서 한 번에 같이 하시는 분이 많아요.
The general anesthetic lasts for about an hour, so I have a lot of people who do it at the same time.
수면 중에 두 검사를 다 하는 거죠? 그럼 같이 할게요.
You’re doing both the tests during the time I am asleep, right? Then, I’ll do it together.

V/A+ 는다고/ㄴ다고/다고 해서
It is used with an action verb or descriptive verb stem. It is used when the speaker acts according to the information which the speaker knows in advance. It is a combined expression with ‘-는다고/ㄴ다고/다고 하다’ as an indirect quotation and ‘-어서/아서/여서’ as a reason.

‘-는다고 해서’ is used if it ends with a consonant of the action verb stem. ‘-ㄴ다고 해서’ is used if it ends with a vowel. ‘-다고 해서’ is used if it ends with a descriptive verb stem.

요즘 사람들이 이 책을 많이 읽는다고 해서 저도 한번 읽어 봤어요.
Recently many people enjoy reading this book so I read it, too.

오후에 비가 온다고 해서 우산을 가지고 나왔어요.
I brought the umbrella since there will be raining in the afternoon.

학교 앞 식당의 음식이 맛있다고 해서 오늘 거기 가 보려고 해.
Today I am going to eat at a restaurant next to the school where the food is very delicious.

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Related words
수면 내시경 conscious sedation endoscope
전신 full-length / general
마취 anesthesia
수면 hypnoid / sleep

Source: Yonsei University. Korean Language Institute

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