If we had practiced more, we would have won in Korean 🇰🇷

Sentence info.

더 (deo) – means “more.”

연습 (yeonseup) – means “practice.”

했더라면 (haetdeoramyeon) – is formed from the verb 하다 (“to do”) with its noun form 연습하다 (“to practice”). The stem 행동 “했” is the past tense, attached to the conditional ending -더라면, which is used here for a counterfactual “if” clause (“if [one] had done”). Thus, 연습했더라면 means “if [we] had practiced more.”

이겼을 (igyeotseul) – comes from the verb 이기다 (“to win”). The form 이겼 is its past tense, with the ending -을 attached to form a future or hypothetical attributive clause modifying 거예요.

거예요 (geoyeyo) – is a polite auxiliary construction indicating the speculative or consequential “would have.” Combined, 이겼을 거예요 translates as “would have won.”

Tips to remember:
• Recognize 더 as a simple modifier meaning “more.”
• 연습하다 means “to practice.” When forming counterfactual conditionals, note the pattern: [verb in past tense] + -더라면.
• For outcomes, linking a past form adjective (이겼을) to 거예요 is a common method to indicate “would have” in hypothetical statements.

Alternate ways to say “If we had practiced more, we would have won”:
• 만약 우리가 더 연습했더라면, 이겼을 거예요.
 (Manyag uriga deo yeonseuphaetdeoramyeon, igyeotseul geoyeyo.)
• 연습을 좀 더 열심히 했더라면, 우리가 이겼을 거예요.
 (Yeonseupeul jom deo yeolsimhi haetdeoramyeon, uriga igyeotseul geoyeyo.)
• 우리가 연습을 더 많이 했더라면, 승리했을 거예요.
 (Uriga yeonseupeul deo manhi haetdeoramyeon, seungrihaetdeoramyeon—승리했을 거예요—if context allows using 승리하다 meaning “to win” in a more formal sense.)

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