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으)면서 Actions Performed 는 동안 옛날 사진을 보면서

Front 옛날 사진을 보면서 친구들은 낄낄거렸어요
Back Friends chuckled as they saw their old pictures
Notes -(으)면서 attaches to verb (and adjective) stems and links two actions performed simultaneously. The ending corresponds to 'while' in English and is similar to -는 동안.

-(으)면서 can only be used to link actions performed by the same subject. The two clauses describing simultaneous actions performed by two different people can be linked with -는 동안.

-(으)면서 cannot be used with tense markers.

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