Korean grammar · Level 5
V/A-(으)ㄹ지라도 · N일지라도 · V/A-(으)ㄴ들 · N인들
Even if … · What good would it do even if … — strong and rhetorical concessions
Taught in Level 5, Unit 10: Paper season
paperwork and hospitals are full of 'even if': even if it is a small amount, keep the receipt; even if you are not family, you can sign. You know -아/어도 and -더라도 (L4-U02). -(으)ㄹ지라도 is their strongest, most formal member. And when 'even if' becomes 'so what?', Korean has -(으)ㄴ들 — Bori's 'even if you wrote it with your left, who'd read it?'.
Example
비록 작은 실수일지라도 서류에서는 큰 문제가 될 수 있다.
Even a small mistake can become a big problem in a document.
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Practise it in context · Level 5, Unit 10
Paper season
The rule with a table, Sori’s tips, practice that checks itself, a review room and a one-page cheat sheet.
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