Can you explain the grammar of these sentence "못 알아들었어요."
I know it mean "I don't understand", but I can not divide it into words in its dictionary forms and I didn't understand this grammar.]
I know
못
알다 (or 알아주다?)
었어요 - for making past tence, right?

So what means 들 here (it's not particle to make plural).

Question

Can you explain the grammar of these sentence "못 알아들었어요."
I know it mean "I don't understand", but I can not divide it into words in its dictionary forms and I didn't understand this grammar.]
I know
못
알다 (or 알아주다?)
었어요 - for making past tence, right?

So what means 들 here (it's not particle to make plural).

Answer

못 is a negation particle placed before verbs, it translates to "can not", "not be able to".
알아듣다 is a compound verb (알아- from 알다 "to know" + 듣다 "to hear") and it means "to understand".
And you're right about -었어요, it's the past tense.

못 알아들었어요. = literally "I couldn't understand" but the English equivalent would just be "I didn't understand".

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