2022-06-16

Let's learn about "두통은 좀 어때?"

두통은 좀 어때? : How's the headache?

[other expressions]
- 두통은 좀 어떠니? (to younger people or friends)
- 두통은 좀 어떠냐? (to younger people or friends)
- 두통은 좀 어때? (to younger people or friends)
- 두통은 좀 어떤가? (to younger people or friends)
- 두통은 좀 어떤지? (to younger people or friends)
- 두통은 좀 어떤데? (to younger people or friends)
- 두통은 좀 어때요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 두통은 좀 어떤지요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 두통은 좀 어떤죠? (honourific by ‘-요’; -죠? is a short form of -지요?)
- 두통은 좀 어떤데요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 두통은 좀 어떤가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 두통은 좀 어떻습니까? (formal; honourific by ‘-ㅂ’)
- 두통은 좀 어떠십니까? (more honourific by ‘-시’)

[explanations]
* 두통 : headache <-- 두(head) + 통(ache)
* -은 : a particle makes 두통 subjective after a word ends in a consonant

* 좀 : a little

* 어떻다 : a short form of 어떠하다(be how)

* 어떤가? : 어떻(the stem of 어떻다; ㅎ erased before ㄴ) + -ㄴ가?(a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)
* 어떤데? : 어떻(the stem of 어떻다; ㅎ erased before ㄴ) + -ㄴ데?(a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)
* 어떤지? : 어떻(the stem of 어떻다; ㅎ erased before ㄴ) + -ㄴ지?(a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)
* 어때? : 어떻(the stem of 어떻다: ㅎ erased before 어; 어 + 어 contracted into 애) + -어(a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)
* 어떻습니까? : 어떻(the stem of 어떻다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니까(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’)
* 어떠세요? : 어떻(the stem of 어떻다; ㅎ erased before ㅅ) + -시(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -어(a interrogative verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific verb ending suffix)
* 어떠셔요? : 어떻(the stem of 어떻다; ㅎ erased before ㅅ) + -시(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -여(a interrogative verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific verb ending suffix)
* 어떠십니까? : 어떻(the stem of 어떻다; ㅎ erased before ㅅ) + -시(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니까(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’)

* a verb + -니? / -냐? / -ㄴ가? / -지? / -ㄴ지? / -어? : a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix
* a verb +  -ㄴ가? / -지? / -ㄴ지? / -어? + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb + -세요? / -셔요? / -십니까? / -ㅂ니까? : an honourific interrgative verb ending suffix by ‘-시-‘ / ‘-요’

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