-거들랑/걸랑(요) (종결)

Sentence-final colloquial variant of -거든(요): gives a reason or background the listener may not know: '…, you see'. Casual; sounds folksy or regional, and some speakers use -걸랑(요) playfully.

이유·원인Reason & cause

Han: -걸랑요 is folksy and playful; to a professor use the standard -거든요.

Examples

내가 왜 이렇게 피곤하냐고? 어젯밤에 한숨도 못 잤걸랑.Why am I so tired? I didn't sleep a wink last night, that's why.

시골 할아버지는 "우리 동네 감이 제일 달걸랑" 하며 웃으셨다.Grandpa in the countryside laughed: 'Our village's persimmons are the sweetest, you know.'

오늘은 일찍 들어가 봐야 해. 내일 아침에 시험이 있걸랑.I have to head home early today. I've got an exam tomorrow morning, you see.

Don’t mix up

-거들랑/걸랑(요) (종결)vs-거든(요)The standard neutral form: 바쁘거든요.

-거들랑/걸랑(요) (종결)vs-잖아(요)-잖아(요) gives a reason the listener already knows: 내가 요즘 바쁘잖아. -걸랑 gives new information: 나 요즘 바쁘걸랑.

How to build it

V/A+거들랑(요) / 걸랑(요)

N+(이)거들랑 / (이)걸랑

바쁘다 → 바쁘걸랑; 있다 → 있거들랑; 자다 → 못 잤걸랑; 달다 → 달걸랑; 시험 → 시험이걸랑

Like -거든(요), it explains: it supplies a reason after a statement, or sets up a story to continue: 오늘은 못 가. 시험이 있걸랑.
Conversation only, never in writing or formal speech; to seniors -거든요 is the safe choice.
The conditional -거들랑 'if' (서울에 가거들랑 편지해라) has another clause after it; this one ends the sentence.

Classic mistake

Wrong: ~~교수님, 제가 어제 아팠걸랑요.~~

Right: 교수님, 제가 어제 아팠거든요.

-걸랑요 is folksy and playful; to a professor use the standard -거든요.

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