도대체
Romanisation: dodaeche
after all; exactly
Example sentence
도대체 무슨 일이에요?
Dodaeche museun irieyo?
What on earth is going on?
What 도대체 means
도대체 (dodaeche) is an Korean word meaning “after all; exactly”. It belongs to the Grammar & Phrases topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Korean.
More Grammar & Phrases words
Level 3
겨우
gyeou
only then; barely
게다가
gedaga
moreover
에 따르면
e ttareumyeon
according to
에 대해
e daehae
about; regarding
허락하다
heorakhada
to let; to allow
만약
manyak
if
위해서
wihaeseo
in order to; for
영원히
yeongwonhi
forever
원래
wollae
originally; it turns out
어쩔 수 없이
eojjeol su eopsi
to have no choice but
기만 하면
-giman hamyeon
as long as
서서히
seoseohi
gradually