TOPIK II · LEVEL 4
-다니까(요)
-다니까(요) repeats or insists on what you already said: 'I told you …! / I'm telling you …'.
문장 끝·말투Endings & speech styleHan: 모르다 is a verb: present -(느)ㄴ다니까 → 모른다니까요.
Examples
숙제 벌써 다 했다니까!I told you, I've already finished my homework!
제가 아까 말했잖아요. 오늘은 바쁘다니까요.I told you earlier — I'm busy today.
정말 괜찮다니까요. 걱정하지 마세요.I'm telling you, I'm really fine. Don't worry.
Don’t mix up
-다니까(요)vs-잖아요-잖아요 reminds the listener of something they should know; -다니까요 insists on what you yourself already said.How to build it
V+(느)ㄴ다니까(요)
A+다니까(요)
N+(이)라니까(요)
간다 → 간다니까요, 괜찮다 → 괜찮다니까요
- Shows frustration or emphasis; avoid it with superiors.
- Past: -았/었다니까(요): 했다니까요.
Classic mistake
Wrong: 몰라다니까요.
Right: 모른다니까요.
모르다 is a verb: present -(느)ㄴ다니까 → 모른다니까요.
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All TOPIK grammar- -(으)리라-(으)리라 is a literary ending that expresses the speaker's firm resolve ('I will surely…') or a confident guess ('it will surely…'), usually in writing or before verbs like 다짐하다, 생각하다 and 믿다.
- -더라-더라 reports, in plain casual style, something the speaker personally saw or experienced in the past.
- -더군(요)Recalls something the speaker saw, heard or felt in the past and voices the realization it brought: 'I found that…, I noticed…'. -더군요 is polite; bare -더군 sounds like a monologue or an older speaker.
- -(으)나-(으)나 is a formal written 'but / however', linking two contrasting clauses.
- -(으)되-(으)되 states or allows a first action and then adds a condition or limit to it, in a formal or written style.
- -(이)면 (조사)Attaches to a noun to mean 'if it is N / whenever it is N'; repeated as N(이)면 N, it means 'in every field, whatever you name'.
- -(으)ㄹ 게 아니라Use it to say that doing X is not the right move, so you should do Y instead: "rather than doing X, do Y."
- -(으)ㄹ 무렵-(으)ㄹ 무렵 means 'around the time when …'.
- -(으)ㄹ 리가 없다Use -(으)ㄹ 리가 없다 when you are convinced that something cannot possibly be true or happen, based on what you know.