Let’s learn about "어디서 났어?”

이거 어디서 났어? : Where did you get it?

<other expressions]

- 이거 어디서 났니? (to younger people or friends)

- 이거 어디서 났나? (to younger people or friends)

- 이거 어디서 났냐? (to younger people or friends)

- 이거 어디서 났어? (to younger people or friends)

- 이거 어디서 났는가? (to younger people or friends)

- 이거 어디서 났나요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 이거 어디서 났어요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 이거 어디서 났는가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 이거 어디서 났습니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘-스’)

- 이것은 어디서 났니? (to younger people or friends)

- 이것은 어디서 났나? (to younger people or friends)

- 이것은 어디서 났냐? (to younger people or friends)

- 이것은 어디서 났어? (to younger people or friends)

- 이것은 어디서 났는가? (to younger people or friends)

- 이것은 어디서 났나요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 이것은 어디서 났어요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 이것은 어디서 났는가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 이것은 어디서 났습니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘-스’)

[explanations]

* 이거 : a short form of 이것(this thing)

* -는 : a suffix makes 이거 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a consonant; this omitted

* -은 : a suffix makes 이것 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a consonant

* 어디서 : 어디(where) + -서/에서(from)

* 나다 : (1) spring out; come out (2) be born; come into the world (3) happen; take place (4) have; get; obtain in the sentence

* 났다 : past tense of 나다 by ‘-았-‘

* 났습니까? : 났(the stem of 났다) + -스(a suffix makes a verv more honourific) + -ㅂ니까?(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’)

* a verb + -니? / -나? / -냐? / -어? / -는가? : a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix

* a verb + -나? / -어? / -는가? + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix

* a verb + -습니까 : an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix