Korean Lessons ᚛ Level 9 - Advanced Korean #2 (Lessons 241 to 270) ᚛ Lesson 267 - Let's suppose that, in Korean [-(느)ㄴ다고 치다]
Let's suppose that, in Korean [-(느)ㄴ다고 치다]
Among its many meanings, the verb 치다 has that of "to count as", "to consider that". Preceded by indirect speech, it gives -(느)ㄴ다고 치다, "let's suppose that", "let's say that", "granted that": 내가 그 일을 한다고 치자, "say I take care of it". You pose a hypothesis to draw its consequences, to calculate, to argue, or you provisionally accept a claim in order to discuss it. After a noun, -(이)라고 치다. The form is close to -(으)ㄴ/는 셈 치다, "to act as if", but here you are not consoling yourself: you are reasoning.
"Let's suppose that" with -(느)ㄴ다고 치다
[Hypothesis]-(느)ㄴ다고 치자 / 치면 / 쳐도 [Consequence or question]
The verb of the hypothesis takes the indirect speech form: -ㄴ/는다고 after a verb, -다고 after an adjective, -(이)라고 after a noun, -았/었다고 in the past. 치다 is conjugated as needed: 치자, "let's suppose", opens a line of reasoning; 치면, "if we suppose that", introduces the consequence; 쳐도, "even supposing that", concedes; 치고, "on the assumption that", leads into the action. What follows is often a question: 그럼 누가 도와줄 건데?, "then who is going to help?".
내가 그 일을 한다고 치자. 그럼 누가 도와줄 건데?
→ Say I take care of it. Then who is going to help me?
네 말이 맞다고 치면 왜 아무도 몰랐을까?
→ Supposing you are right, why did nobody know?
비가 온다고 쳐도 행사는 할 거예요.
→ Even supposing it rains, the event will go ahead.
하루에 한 시간씩 공부한다고 치면 한 달이면 삼십 시간이에요.
→ If we count one hour of study a day, that's thirty hours a month.
With a noun and in the past: -(이)라고 치다, -았/었다고 치다
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Calculating and arguing with -다고 치면, -다고 치고
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