V/A+ 던가요?

V/A+ 던가요?

It is attached to the stem of an action verb or a descriptive verb to ask about the past event that the listener has experienced in the past.

It’s a form of asking a question by adding ‘-ㄴ가요?’ to ‘-더’, the regretting expression. Expressions that include ‘더’ such as ‘-더군요’, ‘-던데요’, and ‘-더라고요’ is usually used in the answer, too.

가 : 학생들이 연주는 다 잘하던가요?
Were all the students good at playing?
나 : 아직 학생이라 조금 부족하긴 하더군요. 그래도 좋은 연주였어요.
They were a little short because they are still students. But it was a good performance.

가 : 유양 씨는 건강하던가요?
Was Yooyang healthy?
나 : 네, 생각보다 잘 지내고 있더라고요.
Yes, she was doing better than I thought.

가 : 어제 해수욕장이 개장했더라고요. 그래서 오랜만에 바다에서 수영했어요.
I found the beach opened yesterday. So I swam in the sea for a long time.
나 : 어제 날씨가 꽤 쌀쌀하던데 춥지는 않던가요?
It was quite chilly yesterday, wasn’t it cold?

Conversation:

주말에 부산으로 여행을 다녀왔다면서요? 부산은 어떻던가요?
I heard you went on a trip to Busan last weekend. How was Busan?

저는 다른 것보다 그 지역 사람들이 사용하는 말투가 제일 흥미로웠어요.
More than anything else, I was most interested in the way that people in the area speak.

부산 사투리의 억양은 표준어와 좀 다르지요?
The Busan dialect accent is a little different from that of the standard language, isn’t it?

네, 그리고 성조가 있다는 느낌까지 들었어요.
Yes, and I even felt there is even an intonation.

맞아요. 경상도 사투리는 다른 지역의 말에 비해서 음의 고저가 있는 편이에요.
You’re right. Gyeongsang-do dialect tends to have a pitch that the word of other areas.

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단어나 표현이 다른 것도 있어서 처음에는 이해하기가 힘들었는데 듣다 보니 나중에는 이해돼서 신기하더라고요.
At first, it was hard to understand because there were some different words and expressions but I could understand them as I listen to them, and I felt surprised.

Related words
사투리 dialect
억양 accent
표준어 standard language
성조 intonation
(음의) 고저 pitch

Source: Yonsei University. Korean Language Institute

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