여기가 어디죠? : Where am I ?
[other expressions]
- 여기가 어디니? (to younger people or friends)
- 여기가 어디냐? (to younger people or friends)
- 여기가 어디야? (to younger people or friends)
- 여기가 어디인가? (to younger people or friends)
- 여기가 어딘가? (a short form of 어디인가?)
- 여기가 어디인가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 여기가 어디예요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 여기가 어디입니까? (formal; honourific by ‘-ㅂ’)
[explanations]
* 여기 : here
* -가 : a suffix makes 여기 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a vowel
* 어디 : where
* -이다 : be
* 어디니? : 어디(where) + 이(the stem of 이다) + -니?
* 어디냐? : 어디(where) + 이(the stem of 이다) + -냐?
* 어디야? : 어디(where) + 이(the stem of 이다) + -야?
* 어디인가? : 어디(where) + 이(the stem of 이다) + -ㄴ가?
* 어딘가? : 어디(where) + 이(the stem of 이다) + -ㄴ가?
* 어디예요? : 어디(where) + 이(the stem of 이다) + -에 + -요?
* 어디입니까? : 어디(where) + 이(the stem of 이다) + -었(a suffix makes a verb past tense) + -ㅂ니까?(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’)
* a verb + -니? / -냐? / -야? / -ㄴ가? : a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix
* a verb + -ㄴ가? + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb + -예요? / -입니까? : an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix
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