ttalgineun jogeum bissado daraseo gakkeum sage dwae.

to buy

Breakdown of ttalgineun jogeum bissado daraseo gakkeum sage dwae.

• ~는: topic particle
• ~아서: because
• 비싸다: expensive

Questions & Answers about ttalgineun jogeum bissado daraseo gakkeum sage dwae.

Why is it 딸기는 instead of 딸기가?

는 marks 딸기 as the topic: as for strawberries... It sets up strawberries as the thing being talked about.

Here, 딸기는 sounds natural because the speaker is giving a general comment or personal habit about strawberries. If you used 딸기가, it would sound more like strawberries are being presented as the grammatical subject in a more neutral or contrastive factual statement.

So:

• 딸기는... = As for strawberries,...
• 딸기가... = Strawberries... as the subject, with less of that topic-setting feel

Also, 는 can carry a slight contrastive nuance here: strawberries, unlike some other things, are a little expensive but sweet, so...

What does 조금 비싸도 mean exactly?

비싸다 means to be expensive.

The ending -아/어도 means even if / even though.

So:

• 비싸도 = even if it’s expensive / even though it’s expensive
• 조금 비싸도 = even though it’s a little expensive

This structure expresses concession: something is true, but it does not stop the result in the main clause.

Why is 조금 used here? Does it mean a little in a softening way?