-듯이
deusi
Grammar · 1 sense
like, as if
Examples
왜 이렇게 싸우듯이 마시나요?
Why are you drinking like you're fighting?
가수는 노래를 부르듯이 말했다.
The singer spoke as if singing.
When you'd hear it
-듯이 appears in both conversation and writing, especially in descriptive narration, commentary, and dramatic dialogue. It can sound more literary or vivid than a plain everyday comparison, but forms such as 싸우듯이 are still natural in speech.
What learners get wrong
Learners often treat -듯이 as interchangeable with -처럼, but -듯이 usually follows a verb or adjective stem to describe an action or manner, while -처럼 commonly follows a noun. It can also frame an imagined manner without claiming that the comparison is literally true.
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