No. 12,987 in Korean
돌아오면
"돌아오면" means "if/when (someone) returns" in English.
In a sentence
친구가 여행에서 돌아오면 큰 파티를 열 거예요.
If my friend comes back from the trip, we will throw a big party.
The word 돌아오면 expresses a conditional setting: 'if coming back', combining 돌아오다 ('to return') and 면 ('if').
돌아오면 나에게 전화해 주세요.
Please call me when you return.
Here, 돌아오면 establishes a time-based condition for an action ('to call').
그가 돌아오면 우리가 다시 시작할 수 있습니다.
When he returns, we can start again.
In this sentence, 돌아오면 is used to indicate a temporal condition for the subsequent initiation ('to start').
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