2022-07-27

Let's learn about "혼자 있고 싶어요"

혼자 있고 싶어요 : I want to be alone

[other expressions]
- 혼자 있고 싶다. (to younger people or friends)
- 혼자 있고 싶네. (to younger people or friends)
- 혼자 있고 싶어. (to younger people or friends)
- 혼자 있고 싶군! (to younger people or friends)
- 혼자 있고 싶구나! (to younger people or friends)
- 혼자 있고 싶네요. (honourific by '요')
- 혼자 있고 싶군요! (honourific by '요')
- 혼자 있고 싶어요. (honourific by '요')
- 혼자 있고 싶습니다. (formal; more honourific by '스')

[explanations]
* 혼자 : [=홀로] alone; (all) by oneself; (all) on one's own

* 있다 : be

* 혼자 있다 : be alone

* 있고 : 있(the stem of 있다) + -고(a connection suffix between two verbs)

* 싶다 : want; hope
* -고 싶다 : want to do

* 싶습니다 : 싶(the stem of 싶다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’)

* a verb + -다 / -네 / -야 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -군! / -구나! : a non-honourific exclamatory verb ending suffix
* a verb + -네 / -군! + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb +  -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '스' / '-ㅂ'

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