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TOPIK 5verb

추론하다

churonhada

추론해요 · 추론했어요 · 추론할 거예요 · 추론하세요

to infer, to deduce, to reason

Example

남은 증거를 바탕으로 범인을 추론했어요.

I deduced who the culprit was from the remaining evidence.

Word parts

추 push론 argue

Literally 'push an argument forward' to a conclusion.

Good to know

추론하다 is reasoning from evidence; 추측하다 is a looser guess.