How do you say "my spare change has accumulated over the past year" ?
I was recently at the bank exchanging coins for cash. I had said '동전 현금으로 교환 하려고 하는데 ... 어떻게 해야 되나요?' and an employee responded and led me to the coin exchanger. When she saw me take out my coins, she commented on how much I had ... i replied something like, "지난 한해 동안 남은 동전이 점점 커졌거든요" , to which she giggled.

How would I say this properly? ㅠㅠ

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How do you say "my spare change has accumulated over the past year" ? 
I was recently at the bank exchanging coins for cash. I had said '동전 현금으로 교환 하려고 하는데 ... 어떻게 해야 되나요?' and an employee responded and led me to the coin exchanger. When she saw me take out my coins, she commented on how much I had ... i replied something like, "지난 한해 동안 남은 동전이 점점 커졌거든요" , to which she giggled.

How would I say this properly? ㅠㅠ

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I'd say..
"지난 한 해 동안 모든 동전이거든요"^^/

1. to accumulate - (gradually) 모으다(to collect or to build up), 양(amount)이 ~ 만큼 되다.
2. to have accumulated - 모은 결과 지금 양이 ~ 만큼 되었다.
3. over the past year - 지난 한 해 동안 = 지난 한 해에 걸쳐서
4. my spare money - (내)잔돈 = (내)여분의 동전

As Pickingup said above, your coins can't be getting bigger in size.

\^o^/

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은행 여직원은 동전의 "크기가 커진 것"으로 생각했을 수도 있습니다. 
이런 경우, "점점 늘었거든요 / 많아졌거든요." 등을 쓰는 것이 더 좋습니다.

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something like, "지난 한해 동안 남은 동전이 점점 커졌거든요" , to which she giggled. 

문맥상으로 볼 때 은행 직원이 도와 줄 마음으로 "직원이 얼마나 잔돈이 있는데요?"라고 물었을 것이고 답은 "얼마인데요"라고 대답을 해야 했으나 잔돈이 많아진 이유를 먼저 말하고자 하였으니 "작년에 잔돈이 너무 많이 생겼어요."라고 대답하시고 "거의 5만 원쯤 되요."라고 질문 받은 답변을 하시면 좋은 답변이 되었을 것입니다.

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