2024-07-31

Let’s learn about “제가 낼게요“

제가 낼게요 : I’ll pay for it

[other expressions]
<반말(talking down to)>
- 내가 낼게. (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>
- 제가 낼게요. (honourific by '-요')

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>
- 제가 내겠습니다. (formal; more honourific by '스')

[explanations]
* 내 : I (non-honourific word)
* 제 : I (honourific word)
* -가 : a particle makes 나 / 저 subjective after a
word ends in a vowel

If you want to emphasize what, use 은 or 는
If you want to emphasize who, use 이 or 가

* 내다 : (1) come out; spring out (2) pay for

* 낼게 : 내(the stem of 내다; 내 + -ㄹ contracted into 낼) + -ㄹ(a suffix makes a verb future tense) + -게(one's will)
* 낼게요 : 내(the stem of 내다; 내 + -ㄹ contracted into 낼) + -ㄹ(a suffix makes a verb future tense) + -게(one's will) + -요(an honourific verb ending suffix)
* 내겠습니다 : 내(the stem of 내다) + -겠(one's will) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

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