Let's learn about "운전 중에 졸지 마세요"

운전 중에 졸지 마세요 : Please don’t nod off at the wheel; Don’t fall asleep while driving; You’d better not doze off while at the wheel; Don’t fall asleep on the wheel.

[other expressions]

<반말(talking down to)>

- 운전 중에 졸지 마. (to younger people or friends)

- 운전 중에 졸지 마라. (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>

- 운전 중에 졸지 마요. (honourific by '요')

- 운전 중에 졸지 말아요. (honourific by '요')

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>

- 운전 중에 조시지 마세요. (more honourific by '시')

- 운전 중에 조시지 마셔요. (more honourific by '시')

- 운전 중에 조시지 마십시오. (formal; more honourific by '시')

[explanations]

* 운전 : [運轉] driving; running; operation

* 중 : [中] (1) [=…가운데] in; between; among; amidst; of; out of (2) [=…동안에] during; in (the course of); throughout; while; for (3) [=진행중] under; in process[course] of; be in the middle of ..ing

* -에 : a time suffix "in; during"

* 졸다 : doze off; nod off

* 조시다 : an honourific form of 졸다 by '-시-'; -ㄹ of 졸다 erased before '-시-'

* 졸지 : 졸(the stem of 졸다) + -지(a connection suffix makes a verb negative meaning before a verb means negative nuance)

* 조시지 : 조시(the stem of 조시다) + -지(a connection suffix makes a verb negative meaning before a verb means negative nuance)

* 말다 : [irregular verb] (1) [=그만두다•중단하다] stop; cease (3) [=하지 않다•하지 않는게 좋다] don't; had better not

* 마: 말(the stem of 말다; ㄹ erased before 아; 마 and 아 contracted 마) + -아(a non-honourific imperative or propositive verb ending suffix means "DO ~ " or "please ~ ")

* 마라: 말(the stem of 말다; ㄹ erased before 아) + -아라(a non-honourific imperative or propositive verb ending suffix means "DO ~ " or "please ~ ")

* 마십시오 : 말(the stem of 말다; ㄹ erased before 시)  + -시(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -시오(an honourific imperative or propositive verb ending suffix means "DO ~ " or "please ~ " by ‘시’)

* 마시겠어요 : 말(the stem of 말다; ㄹ erased before 시) + -시(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -겠(a suffix asks a listener’s will) + -어요(an honourific imperative or propositive verb ending suffix means "DO ~ " or "please ~ " by ‘요’)

* a verb + -아 / -아라 : a non-honourific imperative or propositive verb ending suffix means "DO ~ " or "please ~ "

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

* a verb + -십시오 : an honourific imperative or propositive verb ending suffix means "DO ~ " or "please ~ " by ‘시’ / '-요'