Grammar Advanced TOPIK II · Level 5–6 Advanced Grammar Supplement · Curriculum gap

-으랴 -으랴

-으랴 -으랴: What With A and B… — Piling Pressures

Parallel connective -으랴 -으랴: what with doing A and doing B — piled burdens or busy scramble.

Before this, make sure you know: -아요 / -어요 , -고

How to form it

When	Form	Example
Two verbs parallel	-으랴 -으랴	일하랴 공부하랴 / 먹으랴 입으랴
After vowel / ㄹ	-랴 -랴	가랴 오랴

-으랴 -으랴 piles pressures — what with A and B….

Not a calm checklist -고.

Why this is hard

English and covers -고, -면서, -는 데다가. Learners list calmly. -으랴 -으랴 paints scramble under load.

What it does

You show two (or more) demands pulling at once.

일하랴 공부하랴 힘들어요.
먹으랴 입으랴 돈이 모자라요.
아이 키우랴 직장 다니랴 정신이 없어요.
가랴 오랴 하루가 가요.

Forms

일하다 → 일하랴
공부하다 → 공부하랴
먹다 → 먹으랴
가다 → 가랴

When not to use it

Do not use it for neutral friendly listing.

Do not use a single pole alone if the parallel load is the point.

Do not confuse it with rhetorical -으랴 ‘how could…?’ in other seats.

Neighbours — and why they differ

Form	Why it is not this slot
-고	Neutral link.
-으면서	Simultaneous manner.
-는 데다가	Additive fact pile.

Ask: am I showing competing burdens? If yes, -으랴 -으랴.

Do not confuse it with

-는 데다가

and on top of that — stacking one fact onto another

-으면서

doing two things at once — and its hidden contrastive use

-고

and — listing and plain sequence, with no causal claim

Taught alongside this

On the jabi learning path, this appears in 교재·표준 교육과정 밖의 문법 (Grammar outside of textbooks and standard curriculum) — Advanced Grammar Supplement, Unit 1, on the theme of Curriculum gap. These come with it:

-는 셈이다 amounts to / counts as — treating the situation as that result (-는 셈이다) -을 지경이다 to the point of… — an extreme state or plight (-을 지경이다) -기 십상이다 almost certain to… — nine times out of ten (-기 십상이다) -는 둥 마는 둥 half-doing it — barely, half-heartedly (-는 둥 마는 둥) -던 차에 just when… — at the very moment that was underway (-던 차에) 으로 말미암아 owing to… — formal written cause (으로 말미암아) -는답시고 under the pretext of… — claiming to, often critically (-는답시고) -는가 하면 and then again… — stacking contrasting cases (-는가 하면) -을 겸 while also… — doing it for that purpose too (-을 겸) -게끔 so that… — purpose with a firm push (-게끔) -을 턱이 없다 no reason whatsoever… — denying grounds flatly (-을 턱이 없다) -을 리 만무하다 utterly no chance… — impossibility stressed (-을 리 만무하다) -을 성싶다 seems likely to… — a soft forecast (-을 성싶다) -을지언정 even if… — conceding then holding the other line (-을지언정) -기 그지없다 endlessly… — extreme degree with no bound (-기 그지없다) -기 이를 데 없다 beyond words… — so much there is no way to say it (-기 이를 데 없다) -다 못해 unable to go on… — past the limit, then the sequel (-다 못해) -는 셈치고 pretending / counting it as… — provisional assumption (-는 셈치고) -는다 뿐이지 only that… — limiting the claim to just that (-는다 뿐이지) -는다손 치더라도 even granting that… — strong concession then pushback (-는다손 치더라도) -어 주십사 please do… for me — earnest old-style request (-어 주십사) -겠거니 thinking it would… — assumption that guides the next act (-겠거니) -으려던 참이다 was just about to… — intention interrupted at the brink (-으려던 참이다) -는다기보다는 rather than saying… — reframing the label (-는다기보다는) -은 끝에 after all that… — only at the end of the ordeal (-은 끝에) -은 바 있다 have (once)… — formal experience on record (-은 바 있다) -건 간에 whether A or B… — it does not matter which (-건 간에)

Words used above

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-으랴 -으랴-eurya -euryawhat with A and B…

바쁘다bappeudato be busy

부담budamburden

데다가dedagaon top of that — neighbour

동시에dongsieat the same time

Quick check

No sign-up, no score saved — just see if it stuck.

1. Work and study are both pulling at once, and that scramble is exhausting. Which line?

2. Feeding and clothing are both draining the money. You want the piled-burden pair, not a calm list.

3. Coming and going eat the whole day. Which line shows that scramble, not a neutral link?

Common questions

Dictionary?

Parallel connective: while having to handle A and B — pressure stack.

Tone?

Complaint, empathy, busy-life narrative.

Vs -는 데다가?

-는 데다가 adds a fact. 으랴 으랴 stages competing tasks.

Café soft?

일도 하고 공부도 하고…. Keep 으랴 when the scramble is the colour.