Breakdown of oneul achime sinmuneul ilgdaga jaemiissneun gisareul bwasseo.
Questions & Answers about oneul achime sinmuneul ilgdaga jaemiissneun gisareul bwasseo.
-다가 means while doing something / in the middle of doing something, then something else happened.
So 신문을 읽다가 재미있는 기사를 봤어 means:
- I was reading the newspaper,
- and then, during that, I saw a interesting article.
Using 읽고 would just mean read and then in a more simple sequence:
- 신문을 읽고 재미있는 기사를 봤어 = I read the newspaper and then saw an interesting article.
That sounds a bit odd here, because seeing the article is really part of the reading process. -다가 captures that interruption or discovery much better.
Not exactly.
- 읽다가 = while reading / in the middle of reading, then something happened
- 읽으면서 = while reading, at the same time
In this sentence, 읽다가 is more natural because the speaker is describing a new event that occurred during the action of reading: they came across an interesting article.
Compare:
신문을 읽다가 재미있는 기사를 봤어
= I was reading the newspaper and happened to see an interesting article.신문을 읽으면서 재미있는 기사를 봤어
= While reading the newspaper, I saw an interesting article.
The second is not impossible, but -다가 gives the stronger sense of something happened in the middle of the first action.