neomeojyeossjiman keuge an apasseoyo.

-지만 means but, although, or even though, depending on context.

In this sentence:

• 넘어졌지만 = fell, but...
• It connects the first idea to a contrasting second idea.

So the structure is:

• 넘어졌지만 = I/they fell, but...
• 크게 안 아팠어요 = it didn’t hurt badly / I wasn’t badly hurt

A natural English translation is something like:

• I fell, but it didn’t hurt much.
• I fell, but I wasn’t badly hurt.

The dictionary form is 넘어지다, which means to fall down.

Here is how it changes:

• 넘어지다 → verb stem 넘어지-
• add past tense -었-
• 넘어지었어요 contracts to 넘어졌어요
• add -지만 for but
• 넘어졌지만 = fell, but...

So:

• 넘어지다 = to fall
• 넘어졌어요 = fell
• 넘어졌지만 = fell, but

This kind of contraction is very common in Korean.

Yes, 크다 usually means to be big, but 크게 is its adverb form, and adverbs often develop wider meanings.

Here, 크게 means something like:

• greatly
• badly
• seriously

So 크게 안 아팠어요 literally means:

• It didn’t hurt greatly
• I wasn’t badly hurt

In natural English, that often becomes:

• It didn’t hurt much
• I wasn’t seriously hurt

This is a very common way to talk about injuries or damage in Korean:

• 크게 다치지 않았어요 = I wasn’t badly injured
• 크게 문제없어요 = There’s no big problem

Both are correct.

Two common ways to negate in Korean are:

• 안 + verb/adjective
• verb/adjective + 지 않다

So these are both possible:

• 안 아팠어요
• 아프지 않았어요

They both mean roughly didn’t hurt.

The difference is mostly style:

• 안 아팠어요 sounds shorter and more conversational
• 아프지 않았어요 sounds a little more written, careful, or formal

In everyday speech, 안 아팠어요 is very natural.

It can suggest either one, depending on context.

Literally, it means:

• It didn’t hurt badly
• I wasn’t hurt seriously

In real conversation, English speakers might translate it as:

• It didn’t hurt much
• I wasn’t badly hurt
• It wasn’t too bad

So the Korean phrase can cover both:

1. pain level

   • it wasn’t very painful

2. severity of the injury

   • the injury wasn’t serious

If you want to focus more clearly on pain, Korean also often uses:

• 별로 안 아팠어요 = It didn’t hurt much
• 많이 안 아팠어요 can appear too, but 별로 안 아팠어요 is often more natural for not much

Korean often leaves out the subject when it is already clear from context.

So 넘어졌지만 크게 안 아팠어요 could mean:

• I fell, but I wasn’t badly hurt
• He/She fell, but wasn’t badly hurt
• They fell, but weren’t badly hurt

The exact subject comes from the situation, not from the sentence itself.

This is extremely common in Korean. Native speakers often omit:

• 저는 / 나는 = I
• 그는 / 그녀는 = he/she
• 우리는 = we

if everyone already knows who is being talked about.

아팠어요 is in the standard polite style, often called the -어요/-아요 style.

That means it is:

• polite
• very common in everyday conversation
• appropriate in many normal situations

So the whole sentence sounds polite but natural:

• not casual/intimate like 넘어졌지만 크게 안 아팠어
• not formal like 넘어졌지만 크게 아프지 않았습니다

You can think of it as the default polite spoken style.

Yes, you could say:

• 넘어졌는데 크게 안 아팠어요.

That is also natural, but the nuance is a little different.

• -지만 gives a clearer contrast: I fell, but...
• -는데 often gives background information and can sound softer: I fell, and/or but...

So:

• 넘어졌지만 크게 안 아팠어요
  = stronger contrast, closer to I fell, but I wasn’t badly hurt

• 넘어졌는데 크게 안 아팠어요
  = softer, more like I fell, but it wasn’t too bad

Both are fine, but -지만 makes the unexpected contrast a little more explicit.

No. 아프다 can be used for different kinds of pain.

It can mean:

• to hurt
• to be painful
• to be sick
• sometimes even emotional pain, depending on context

Examples:

• 다리가 아파요. = My leg hurts.
• 머리가 아파요. = My head hurts.
• 배가 아파요. = My stomach hurts.
• 마음이 아파요. = My heart hurts / I feel emotional pain.

In your sentence, because of 넘어졌지만 (fell, but...), the pain is understood as physical pain from falling.

Yes, it can.

Because falling often leads people to expect pain or injury, 넘어졌지만 크게 안 아팠어요 carries a mild sense of:

• Luckily, it wasn’t serious
• Even though I fell, it wasn’t that bad

That contrast is exactly why -지만 works well here. It highlights that the second part is a little unexpected.

So the sentence does not just report two facts. It also suggests:

• I fell
• but fortunately, it didn’t turn into a serious injury