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N대로 — 'as N · according to N' — the way a plan, an order or someone's words say

'as N · according to N' — the way a plan, an order or someone's words say. Korean grammar for upper intermediate learners — Level 4A, lesson 1: 적성과 진로 (Aptitude and career paths).

What it means

대로 after a noun means 'as N' or 'according to N': 계획대로 'as planned', 순서대로 'in order', 선생님 말씀대로 'as the teacher said'. It stays the same with or without 받침 and is written together with the noun (계획대로, not 계획 대로); after ㄱ, ㄷ or ㅂ it sounds like [때로] — 계획대로 [계획때로], 약속대로 [약쏙때로]. The noun is usually something set or said before — a plan, an order, a promise, a schedule, a rule, someone's words (말씀 for a teacher, 말 for a friend) — and the verb at the end says what went or was done that way: 계획대로 됐어요 'it went as planned', 순서대로 쓰세요 'write it in order'. Two fixed ones are worth learning whole: 마음대로 'as you like' and 사실대로 'truthfully, as it really was'. 대로 itself never takes a tense; the verb at the end does.

Forms

Key points

• N대로 — 'as N, according to N': 계획대로 · 순서대로 · 선생님 말씀대로 — the same 대로 with or without 받침, written together with the noun
• The usual nouns are things set or said before — 계획 · 순서 · 약속 · 예정 · 규칙 · 말씀 — plus two fixed ones: 마음대로 'as you like' · 사실대로 'truthfully'

Examples

• 계획 → 계획대로 됐어요. 순서 → 순서대로 쓰세요. 말씀 → 말씀대로 할게요.
• 받침 O · X 같아요: 약속대로 · 예정대로 · 차례대로 · 의도대로
• 명사에 붙여 써요: 계획대로 O · 계획 대로 X
• 선생님 → 선생님 말씀대로. 친구 · 선배 → 친구 말대로 · 선배 말대로
• 마음대로 하세요. = 하고 싶은 것을 하세요. 사실대로 말했어요. = 거짓말을 안 했어요.

Where university textbooks teach it

This point also appears in: Seoul National University Korean 4A, lesson 1; Yonsei University Korean 3-2, lesson 11; Ewha Womans University Korean 2-2, lesson 10; Hongik University Korean 3A, lesson 6; Hanyang University Korean 3-2, lesson 12.

Also in this lesson

• V-고자 (하다) — a formal 'in order to' — and 'I intend to'
• V-는 대로 · V-(으)ㄴ 대로 — 'the way someone does or did' — and -는 대로 'as soon as'

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