가차이

See Korean 가까이 (gakkai).

• IPA^(key): /ka̠t͡ɕʰa̠i/

가차이 (gachai)

1. closely; close together
2. near

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가차이 • (gachai)

1. Jeolla dialect, Gangwon, and Gyeongsang form of 가까이 (gakkai, “closely, near”)
   • 2018 March 6, 정충갑, “가교리 염전”, in 한국구비문학대계‎, 전라남도 완도군 고금면:

     옛날에는 화염... 우리 증조부니까 한 백년, 백년 가차이, 한 팔십년?

     Yennar-e-neun hwayeom... Uri jeungjobu-nikka han baengnyeon, baengnyeon gachai, han palsimnyeon?

     Back then [we used] fire fields [to make salt]... since it was the time of my great grandparents, maybe [it was about] a hundred years, close to a hundred years, [like] eighty years?