2022-05-26

Let's learn about "정정당당"

우리 오늘 정정당당하게 (게임을) 해보자 : Let's play fair today

[other expressions]
- 우리 오늘 정정당당하게 (게임을) 해보자. (to younger people or friends)
- 우리 오늘 정정당당하게 (게임을) 해봐. (to younger people or friends)
- 우리 오늘 정정당당하게 (게임을) 해봐요. (honourific by ‘요’)
- 우리 오늘 정정당당하게 (게임을) 해봅시다. (more honourific by ‘시’)
- 우리 오늘 정정당당하게 (게임을) 해보시지요. (more honourific by ‘시’)
- 우리 오늘 정정당당하게 (게임을) 해보시죠. (more honourific by ‘시’; -시죠 is a short form of -시지요)
- 우리 오늘 정정당당하게 (게임을) 해보십시다. (formal; more honourific by ‘시’)

[explanations]
* 우리 : we

* 오늘 : today

* 정정당당 : fairness
* 정정당당하다 : be fair and square; open and aboveboar
* 정정당당하게 : an adverb form of 정정당당하다 by '-게'
* 정정당당한 : fair

* 게임 : game
* -을 : a particle makes 게임 objective after a word ends in a consonant

* 하다 : do
* 보다 : (1) see; look; watch (2) meet (3) try
* 해보다 : try to do

* 해보자 : 해보(the stem of  해보다) + -자(a non-honourific propositive verb ending suffix means "Let's ~")
* 해봐 : 해보(the stem of  해보다) + -아(a non-honourific propositive verb ending suffix means "Let's ~")
* 해봐요 : 해보(the stem of  해보다) + -아(a propositive verb ending suffix means "Let's ~") + -요(an honourific verb ending suffix)
* 해보시지요 : 해보(the stem of  해보다) + -시(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -지(a propositive verb ending suffix means "Let's ~") + -요(an honourific verb ending suffix)
* 해봅시다 : 해보(the stem of  해보다)  + -ㅂ시다(a propositive honourific verb ending suffix means "Let's ~")
* 해보십시다 : 해보(the stem of  해보다) + -시(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + + -ㅂ시다(a propositive honourific verb ending suffix means "Let's ~")

* a verb + -자 / -아 : a non-honourific propositive verb ending suffix means "Let's ~"
* a verb + -아 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix)
* a verb + -ㅂ시다 / -시지요 / -시죠 / -십시다 : an honourific propositive verb ending suffix means "Let's ~" by '-요' / '-ㅂ'

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