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Introduction to a funny Korean phrase. Today, I'm going to explain a Korean phrase in English. The term is 답정너, which is the shortening for '답은 정해서 있어. 너는 대답만 해.' We Koreans often make terms short that way. 답정너 describes a person or a situation where A asks B a question, and the answer to the question is obvious that it's what A wants to hear from B. If I had to give you an example, get this. This is a bit cliche though. A girl asks her boyfriend if she has gained some weight lately. He would know what she wants to hear from him: "No, you don't look that way. You are slim." That is a good example of the situation of 답정너.

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Introduction to a funny Korean phrase.

Today, I'm going to explain a Korean phrase in English. The term is 답정너, which is the shortening for "답은 정해서 있어. 너는 대답만 해." We Koreans often shorten phrases this way. 답정너 describes a person or a situation where one person asks another a question, and it's obvious what answer the first person wants to hear. This is a bit cliché, but as an example a girl asks her boyfriend if she has gained some weight lately. He would know what she wants to hear from him: "No, you don't look any bigger. You are slim." That is a good example of the situation described by 답정너.

 

I googled the phrase, and google asked me if I meant "답은 정해져 있어. 너는 대답만 해" I have no idea if this is a problem with google, or a typo on your part though. You know more about Korean than I do!

 

To 'shorten' mean to make something shorter. This is a shorter more concise way to say this.

 

Using A and B to describe the people seems a bit too specific. It is easy to keep distinguish between the two people in your example without applying labels.

 

You can omit 'from person B' or 'from the other person'. It's easy to understand once you mention that the first person expects an answer from the other person.

 

I shortened and combined two sentences to make your sentences flow more naturally. Telling someone 'get this' is very informal even for english, and usually reserved for something outlandish or hard to believe.

 

I changed 'that way' to 'any bigger' just to make it sound more natural. It was correct before.

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