Let's learn about "제가 버스를 잘못 탔네요"

제가 버스를 잘못 탔네요 : I think I’m on the wrong bus; I took the wrong bus; I’m going the wrong way; This isn’t the one I should take.

ex)

A. 버스를 잘못 탔나봐요 : I think I’m on the wrong bus.

B. 어디 가시려는 건데요? : Well, where are you trying to go?

[other expressions]

<반말(talking down to)>

- 제가 버스를 잘못 탔다. (to younger people or friends)

- 제가 버스를 잘못 탔네. (to younger people or friends)

- 제가 버스를 잘못 탔어. (to younger people or friends)

- 제가 버스를 잘못 탔군! (to younger people or friends)

- 제가 버스를 잘못 탔구나! (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>

- 제가 버스를 잘못 탔네요. (honourific by '요')

- 제가 버스를 잘못 탔군요! (honourific by '요')

- 제가 버스를 잘못 탔어요. (honourific by '요')

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>

- 제가 버스를 잘못 탔습니다. (formal; honourific by '-ㅂ')

[explanations]

* 나 : I (non-honourific word)

* 저 : I (honourific word)

* -는 : a particle makes 나 / 저 subjective after a

word ends in a vowel

* 나는 / 저는 : these are omitted

* 내 : I (non-honourific word)

* 제 : I (honourific word)

* -가 : a particle makes 내 / 제 subjective after a word ends in a vowel

* 내가 / 제가 : these are omitted

If you want to emphasize what, use 은 or 는

If you want to emphasize who, use 이 or 가

* 버스 : bus

* -를 : a particle makes 버스 objective after a word ends in a vowel

* 잘못 : (1) [=과실] a fault; an error; a misstep; a slip; [=오류] a mistake; [=죄과] a blame

- 큰[작은] 잘못 : a gross[slight / minor] error

- 잘못을 깨닫다 : notice a mistake[an error]

- 잘못을 인정하다 : admit[acknowledge] a mistake

- 자기 잘못을 깨닫다 : realize[see / perceive] one's error

- 네 작문에는 잘못이 많다 : Your composition has a lot of[is full of] mistakes

* 타다 : (1) ride (2) get in a taxi; get on a bus (3) burn (4) be sunburn (5) parch (6) climb; go up (6) do skating (7) mix (8) receive; be awarded (9) split (10) be sensitive (11) play on instruments like piano (12) do (diving)

* 탔다 : past tense of 타다 by '-았-'(the preceding stem ends in a positive vowel)

* 버스를 잘못 타다 : take the wrong bus

* 탔습니다 : 타(the stem of 타다) + 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'

* 탔나봐요 : a short form of 탔나보아요(보 + -아 contracte into 봐)

* 탔나보아요 : 탔(the stem of 탔다) + 보(the stem of 보다: see, look, watch, think, guess; 보 + -아 contracted into 봐) + -아(a descriptive verb ending suffix; the preceding stem ends in a '-오' vowel) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)

* -나봐요 = -나보아요 : I guess that ~

* 어디 : where

* -으로/-로 : a place suffix means "to; toward"

* 가다 : go (a non-honourific word)

* 가시다 : go (a honourific word by '-시-'

* 가시려는 : 가시(the stem of 가시다) + -려는(An expression used to indicate that one has the intention or purpose to do a certain act: 어떤 행위를 할 의도나 목적이 있음을 나타내는 표현; -려 means "in order to"; 는 makes 가시려 adnominal)

* 건데요? : a short form of 것인데요

* 것인데요? : 것(a word makes 가시려는 infinitive in English) + -이(the stem of 이다) + -ㄴ데(A sentence-final ending used to ask the listener while anticipating his/her answer: 일정한 대답을 요구하며 물어보는 뜻을 나타내는 종결 어미) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)