Let's learn about "먼저 하세요"

먼저 하세요 : After you

[other expressions]

- 먼저 해. (to younger people or friends)

- 먼저 해라. (to younger people or friends)

- 먼저 해요. (honourific by ‘요’)

- 먼저 하세요. (honourific by ‘요’)

- 먼저 하셔요. (honourific by ‘요’)

- 먼저 하시지요. (honourific by ‘요’)

- 먼저 하시죠. (honourific by ‘요’; -죠 is a short form of -지요)

- 먼저 하십시오. (more honourific by ‘시’)

[explanations]

* "After you" can means (1) "먼저 하세요" (2) "먼저 가세요"

* 먼저 : (1) [=앞서서] first; ahead (2) [=우선] first of all; above all; before anything else (3) [=미리] earlier; before; in advance; beforehand (4) [전에] (sometime) ago; previously; before; formerly

- 먼저 가다 : go first / go before others / go ahead / take precedence

- 먼저 먹다 : take[eat] first / eat before others

- 먼저 실례합니다[갑니다] : Excuse me, but I must be going. / Please excuse me for going on ahead of you[, but I'll go ahead]

- 내가 그보다 먼저  왔다 : I came earlier than he did. / I arrived before he did

- 그가 맨 먼저 일어섰다 : He was the first to stand up

- 먼저 가십시오 : Please go first. / Let me follow you

- 그것보다 이것을 먼저 해야 한다 : You must do this before that

- 우선 무엇보다 먼저 : first of all / before everything else / first / to begin with / at the outset

- 무엇보다 먼저 집을 사다 : buy a house first of all

- 먼저 우리 국민성에 대해서 말하겠다 : I shall begin with the national character of our people

- 먼저 빚을 갚아야겠다 : I have to pay my debts before anything else

- 먼저 부모님께 알려 드리세요 : First of all[Before anything else], you must let your parents know about it

- 먼저 지불하다 : pay in advance / advance / prepay

- 먼저 승인을 얻다 : obtain prior approval

- 내가 이 이야기를 먼저 했어야 하는데… : I should have explained[told you] this first. / I should have started off by telling you this, but ‥

- 그는 조금 먼저 퇴근했다 : He left the office a little before we did

- 먼저 말한 바와 같이 : as previously stated / as noted[said] above

- 먼저 말한 바로 미루어 : judging from the foregoing

- 먼저 상태로 돌아가다 : return to the previous condition

- 먼저 그렇게 말한 일이 있지 않은가 : Didn't you say that sometime ago? 

* 하다 : do

* 해 : 하(the stem of 하다; 하 + -어 contracted into 해) + -어(a non-honourific propositive verb ending suffix means "do ~")

* 해라 : 하(the stem of 하다; 하 + -어 contracted into 해) + -어라(a non-honourific propositive verb ending suffix means "do ~")

* 하세요 : 하(the stem of 하다) + -시(s suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -어(a propositive verb ending suffix means "do ~") + -요(an honourific verb ending suffix)

* 하셔요 : 하(the stem of 하다) + -시(s suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -여(a propositive verb ending suffix means "do ~") + -요(an honourific verb ending suffix)

* 하십시오 : 하(the stem of 하다)  + -시(s suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ시오(an  honourific propositive verb ending suffix means "do ~")

* a verb + -어 / -어라 : a non-honourific propositive verb ending suffix means "please ~"

* a verb + -어 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix

* a verb + -세요 / -셔요 / -십시오 / -시지요 / -시죠 : an  honourific propositive verb ending suffix means "please ~" by '-시' / '-오' / '-요'