I am reading a Korean children's book, and what I have found in many pages are sentences that end in "대요." I wish to know what the ending represents, and I will give some examples of it that I found:
-엄마 아빠는 작고 아담한 집에서 즐겁게 살았대요.
-내가 태어났을 때 내 눈은 별처럼 초롱초롱 빛났대요.
As you can see, at the end of the sentence they end in "대요" but I have never encountered it before...
Hi roboytoe563484,
It's nice to see you make use of the forum here at KC101. Children's books are a great way to learn. I used them extensively.
regarding your question, here '...대요' means like 'they said' "it is said' 'heard that'
엄마 아빠는 작고 아담한 집에서 즐겁게 살았대요. I heard that mother and father lived happily in a small, cozy house. or 'I was told that...'They said...'
내가 태어났을 때 내 눈은 별처럼 초롱초롱 빛났대요. -They said my eyes were shining with a bright clear light like the stars when I was born.
be sure not to confuse this with the pattern '~ㄴ데요' which sounds very similar but has a totally different meaning.
George -- fellow studtent
