-드랫-

Korean

Etymology

Compare 더랫 (-deoraet-).

Suffix

드랫 • (-deuraet-)

1. (Pyongan, Hwanghae, Gangwon) Dialectal form of 었 (-eot-, “past tense marker going onto the main verb, adjective or copula of the sentence”).
   • 2011 February 5, 김용복 [gimyongbok], “캄차카로 보내진 북한 노무자, 남한의 가족을 만나다 [kamchakaro bonaejin bukhan nomuja, namhanui gajogeul mannada]”, in KBS‎^[1], 강원도 김화군 근동면 [gang'wondo gimhwagun geundongmyeon]:

     그전엔 화천꺼정 이북이드랫는데... 50년 즌장 벳겼지...난 모릅니다 어떻게 됐는지.

     Geujeonen hwacheon-kkeojeong ibug-ideuraen-neunde... 50-nyeon jeunjang betgyeot-ji...Nan moreumnida eotteoke dwaen-neunji.

     Back then it was [considered] North Korea until Hwacheon... but in the war 50 years ago it was taken [by South Korea]... I don't know about what's happened [to my hometown].

     • From an interview with a member of the Korean community in Kamchatka Krai, many of whom were originally North Korean labourers who were unable to return from the Soviet Union in the 1950s.