Korean grammar · Level 4 · 4급
V-는 대로
As soon as
-는 대로 means “as soon as”, and the second half is usually a plan, a promise or a request: I'll call, please come. The verb in front never takes the past tense. (In Level 3 you met -(으)ㄴ/는 대로 meaning “as, the way” — the same shape doing a different job.)
Examples
결과가 나오는 대로 연락드릴게요.
We'll get in touch as soon as the results are out.
수업이 끝나는 대로 갈게요.
I'll come as soon as class finishes.
도착하는 대로 전화해 주세요.
Please call me as soon as you arrive.
Practise it in context · Level 4, Unit 7
Work and the future
A dialogue with audio, practice that checks itself, Hoya’s mistakes, a reading and a writing task.
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