돌아오면

This is the 12987th most frequent Korean word.


돌아오면

"돌아오면" means "if/when (someone) returns" in English.


The word 돌아오면 expresses a conditional setting: 'if coming back', combining 돌아오다 ('to return') and 면 ('if').

친구가 여행에서 돌아오면 큰 파티를 열 거예요.

If my friend comes back from the trip, we will throw a big party.


Here, 돌아오면 establishes a time-based condition for an action ('to call').

돌아오면 나에게 전화해 주세요.

Please call me when you return.


In this sentence, 돌아오면 is used to indicate a temporal condition for the subsequent initiation ('to start').

그가 돌아오면 우리가 다시 시작할 수 있습니다.

When he returns, we can start again.