도
do
도 is not 'also' — it is a hand adding one more
The picture A hand setting one more thing on a pile that already exists. Nothing new is started — something is added on top. 도 lays one more thing on the pile; 만 keeps one and clears everything else away.
Where the picture shows up in 도
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one more on top
저도 같이 갈게요.
jeo-do ga-chi gal-ge-yo
I'll come along too.
A pair of shoes set down in line behind the ones already waiting at the door
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today on top of yesterday
오늘도 잔업이에요.
o-neul-do ja-neo-bi-e-yo
Overtime again today.
Yesterday's calendar square is stamped 'overtime', and the same stamp comes down on today's square too
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even the bottom one
바빠서 점심도 못 먹었어요.
ba-ppa-seo jeom-sim-do mot meo-geo-sseo-yo
I was so busy I didn't even get lunch.
Even the space at the bottom of the tray, where lunch should have been, is left bare
점심을 못 먹었어요 is just the fact; 점심도 adds the sting of 'not even that'.
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the pile overflowing
두 시간도 넘게 기다렸어요.
du si-gan-do neom-ge gi-da-ryeo-sseo-yo
I waited over two hours.
The water has reached the two-hour mark and keeps rising until it spills over the rim
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this one and that one
카드도 되고 현금도 돼요.
ka-deu-do doe-go hyeon-geum-do dwae-yo
Card works, and cash works too.
A card goes down on the counter, and a stack of cash comes down beside it
All of it in one picture
도 starts nothing new; it is a hand laying one more thing on a pile that is already there. Put your shoes behind the ones at the door and you are coming too; stamp today's square the same as yesterday's and it is overtime again. Leave even the lunch slot at the bottom of the tray bare and the sting of 'not even that' is added; let the water rise past the two-hour mark and it is more than that. Set cash down beside the card and it is this one and that one both. So wherever 도 lands, there is a shadow behind it: something was already there.