"어머니는 눈치가 있게 물어봤어요."

Translation: The mother asked tactfully.

[2poor4name]

Shouldnt "tried to ask" also be accepted because of 봤다

[klodak]

In Korean the word for ask is 물어보다, so it includes 보다 in it but doesn't mean "try to ask"

[pluureng]

So "try to ask" is 물어봐보다?

[jackisback7]

Yes

[Vova849025]

눈치 cant be translated to English

[tuffguykerouac]

What essence of 눈치 does tact exclude?

[RQZ.Sash]

Can someone explain 눈치가 있게 grammatically?

[oee16]

눈치있다 (vb) - have tact

눈치있는 (adj) - with tact /tactful

눈치있게 (adv) - tactfully

[TesterK_Suika]

눈치가 있게, or 눈치있게 can be used in front of someones acts. the trandlation it correlates to in here is tactfully, although i would use carefully.
그 사람은 눈치가 있게 자리를 떠납니다., for example, can be translated as the man moves out of a seat tactfully., or the man moves out of the place carefully.

[LesChristiansen]

Either "asked tactfully"or "tactfully asked" are both grammatically correct.

[tuffguykerouac]

However, the "either A or B are both C" construction is not