더라 [Intermediate Grammar]

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- 더라

It is an ending used when the speaker recalls what he/she has experienced or has done. If it is used in interrogative sentences, it means the speaker does not remember it exactly, so he/she is trying to remember. To make it an honorific form, it changed to '더라고요.'

Example:

1. 그 사람은 아무 말 없이 듣기만 하더라.
He just listened without saying anything.

2. 직장 생활이 생각처럼 쉽지가 않더라고요.

Life at work is not as easy as I'd thought.

3. 그 일이 있었던 게 언제더라?

When did that happen?

가: 제주도에 가 보니까 어때요?

How about going to Jeju Island?

나: 정말 경치가 멋있더라.

The scenery was really nice.

가: 제가 어제 드린 서류 좀 빨리 주세요.

Hurry up and give me the papers I gave you yesterday.