-더라면
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Grammar · 1 sense
if I had
Examples
제가 키가 컸더라면 모델이 되었을 거예요.
If I had been taller, I would have become a model.
제가 2분 빨리 집을 나갔더라면 버스를 안 놓쳤을 거에요.
If I had left home 2 minutes earlier, I wouldn't have missed the bus.
돈을 아껴서 썼더라면 다른 사람에게 돈을 빌리지 않아도 됐을 텐데.
If I had saved money, I wouldn't have had to borrow money from others.
When you'd hear it
It appears in reflective speech and writing about missed chances or imagining a different past, including dramas and personal conversations. It is neutral in register, and often appears with endings such as -을 텐데요.
What learners get wrong
Learners often confuse -더라면 with -더라도. -더라면 introduces a hypothetical condition, while -더라도 means that the result holds even if the condition is true.
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