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Just and Only (How and When to Use?)

tonygr
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Just and Only (How and When to Use?)

Postby tonygr » February 19th, 2009 10:00 pm

I have been practicing using vocabulary and I find myself getting stuck on how to use "Just" & "Only" vocabulary 그냥, 방금, ~만, 뿐, 단지, (etc. that I may be forgetting at the moment).

Could someone help me explain when and how to use these properly?

Thanks in advance! :) :)

javiskefka
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Postby javiskefka » February 27th, 2009 12:45 pm

I'll give it a try, Tony.

그냥

This is an adverb, and you use it to mean "nothing but".

어제 밤 그냥 도서관에서 공부했어.
Last night, I just studied at the library.

방금

This is an adverb, and you use it to mean "a moment ago"

널 방금 전화했지.
I just called you.

~만

This is a suffix, and it means "only". It's different from 방금 because you can attach it to most words in a sentence, and it only modifies that word instead of the whole sentence.

I'm out of time right now, so I can't finish my explanation.
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