Can someone help me with this sentence?
I'm having trouble to translate properly to English:
- 빠질만 하니까 빠지는 것 같긴 한데.. 이제 좀 쪄야 한다.
I don't know how to translate it can someone help me please? Thanks in advance.
PS: Before that sentence, let me tell you about the context, sentence before was: ''many people asked me why I look like this, the truth is that I've been losing weight for months''
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빠질만 하니까 빠지는 것 같긴 한데.. 이제 좀 쪄야 한다.
=> 빠질 만하니까 빠지는 것 같긴(=같기는) 한데 .. 이제 좀 쪄야 한다.
=> Probably I'm losing weight for understandable reasons ... but now I might as well put on some.
* (살이) 빠지다 = lose weight. (살이) 찌다 = put on weight. 살이 may be omitted if the context is about your weight or dieting.
It uses a few useful idiomatic phrases.
* V-ㄹ 만하다 = It's as expected [understandable / no surprise] to V / There is a reason enough to V. "화를 낼 만하다".
* A-기는 하다 = It does appear to be A (concedes or reaffirms a fact, like "I give you that it's A"). "좋기는 하다".
* V-야(만) 한다 = should/must/had better V.. "나는 떠나야(만) 한다" (만 strengthens the meaning).
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