-기도 하다

gido hada

Grammar · 1 sense

Sometimes

Examples

저는 주말에는 맛있는 음식을 만들어 먹기도 해요.

Sometimes on weekends, I cook and eat delicious food.

저는 주말에 영화를 보기도 해요.

I sometimes watch movies on weekends.

When you'd hear it

Common in everyday speech and neutral writing, including personal routines, conversations, and diary-like descriptions. The polite form 하기도 해요 is especially common in spoken Korean.

What learners get wrong

Unlike 가끔, which is a standalone adverb, -기도 하다 attaches to a verb or adjective stem. It often presents the action as one thing that occurs among other possibilities, rather than simply stating its frequency.

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