2024-12-20

Let's learn about "김치 하세요"

“김치~” 하세요 : Smile, everyone; Give me a big smile; Cheese!; Say cheese

[other expressions]
<반말(talking down to)>
- “김치~” 해. (to younger people or friends)
- “김치~” 해라. (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>
- “김치~” 해요. (honourific by ‘요’)

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>
- “김치~” 하세요. (honourific by ‘요’)
- “김치~” 하셔요. (honourific by ‘요’)
- “김치~” 하시지요. (honourific by ‘요’)
- “김치~” 하시죠. (honourific by ‘요’; -죠 is a short form of -지요)
- “김치~” 하십시오. (more honourific by ‘시’)

[explanations]
* 김치 : (1) kimchi (2) In Korea, when people pronounce this word, it creates a smile, so we have to say this word when we take a picture

* -를 : a particle makes 김치 objective after a word ends in a vowel; this omitted

* 하다 : (1) do (2) speak in the sentence

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

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