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TOPIK 4adverb

간혹

ganhok

간혹 + verb (간혹 있다); written ≈ spoken 가끔

occasionally, once in a while, now and then

Example

이런 실수는 간혹 일어나기도 합니다.

Mistakes like this do happen once in a while.

Word parts

간 interval혹 perhaps

Literally 'in between, perhaps': something that turns up now and then.

Good to know

Common in the pattern 간혹 ~기도 하다, 'sometimes it also happens that ~'.