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V/A+ 을/ㄹ 거라고는 생각조차 못했다

V/A+ 을/ㄹ 거라고는 생각조차 못했다

It is attached to an action verb or a descriptive verb to emphasize that a certain fact is completely unexpected.

우리 팀이 경기에서 질 거라고는 생각조차 못했기 때문에 충격은 더욱 컸다.
The shock was even greater because I didn’t even think our team would lose the game.

미국에서 헤어졌던 사람을 한국에서 다시 만날 거라고는 생각조차 못했다.
I didn’t even think I would ever meet someone in Korea with who I had split up within the U.S.

네가 돈을 훔쳤을 거라고는 생각조차 못했어. 어떻게 네가 그럴 수 있니?
I never thought you’d steal the money. How could you do that?

Conversation:

이 카페는 굉장히 낡은 건물 같으면서도 세련된 멋이 있어.
This café looks like a very old building, but it has a very sophisticated look.
50년 전에 연탄 공장으로 쓰이다가 버려진 건물인데 이 카페의 주인이 새로 인테리어를 한 거래.
The building was abandoned after being used as a briquettes factory 50 years ago, but the owner of the café had it a new interior.
정말? 나는 이 건물이 옛날에 연탄 공장으로 쓰였을 거라고는 생각조차 못했어.
Really? I never thought this building would have been used as a coal briquettes factory in the old days.
낡고 버려진 건물을 그냥 철거하지 않고 다시 새롭게 사용하는 거지.
It’s of using it newly without demolishing an old and abandoned building.
옛 건축물이 새로운 건축물로 재탄생한 거구나.
So it’s the old building been reborn as a new one.
응, 건축물 재활용에 대한 모범 사례로 인터넷에 소개되는 곳이야.
Yes, it is the place that is introduced on the internet as a good example of building reuse.

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Related words
세련되다 to be sophisticated
연탄 coal briquettes
인테리어 interior
철거 demolishing
old
재탄생 reborn
모범 good example

Source: Yonsei University. Korean Language Institute

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