전화가 2분이나 울렸어요 : The phone was ringing for at least two minutes
[other expressions]
<반말(talking down to)>
- 전화가 2분이나 울렸다. (to younger people or friends)
- 전화가 2분이나 울렸네. (to younger people or friends)
- 전화가 2분이나 울렸어. (to younger people or friends)
- 전화가 2분이나 울렸는데! (to younger people or friends)
<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>
- 전화가 2분이나 울렸네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 전화가 2분이나 울렸어요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 전화가 2분이나 울렸는데요! (honourific by ‘-요’)
<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>
- 전화가 2분이나 울렸습니다. (formal; more honourific by '스')
[explanations]
* 전화 : [電話] a telephone; a phone; a phone call; a ring; a cell phone; a mobile phone
* -가 : a particle makes 전화 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a vowel
* 2분 : [Pronunciation: 이분] 2 minutes
* 2분이나 : 2분 + -이나(A postpositional particle used to indicate that the amount of something is larger than expected or to emphasize a large amount: 수량이 예상되는 정도를 넘거나 꽤 크거나 많음을 강조하는 조사)
* 울다 : (1) [사람이] cry; weep; shed tears; [흐느끼며] sob; [훌쩍거리며] blubber; [비통하게] wail; [낮게] whimper (2) 2 (새·벌레가) sing; chirp; twitter; (고양이가) mew; meow; purr(가르랑거리며); (소가) moo; low(낮고 길게); (말이) neigh(길고 크게); whinny(낮고 부드럽게); (양·염소가) bleat; (나귀가) bray; (쥐가) squeak; (개구리가) croak; (오리가) quack; (부엉이가) hoot; (비둘기가) cook; (까마귀가) caw; (수탉이) crow; (암탉이) cackle; cluck; (병아리가) peep (3) [=우글쭈글해지다] wrinkle; crumple; cockle; pucker; become crumpled[wrinkled] (4) [=진동하여 소리나다] whistling; whizzing; with a whistle[whiz(z)] (5) [=울리다•종·천둥 등이 소리를 내다] sound; ring
- 악을 쓰며 우는 아기 : a squalling baby
- 아파서 울다 : cry with pain
- 슬퍼서 울다 : weep from sorrow
- 기뻐서 울다 : cry[weep] for joy / shed tears of joy
- 감동해서 울다 : be moved to tears
- 슬픈 소식을 듣고 울다 : weep at sad news
- 마음속으로 울다 : weep at heart
- 울면서 말하다 : sob out
- 우는 체하다 : pretend to weep / [=거짓 눈물을 흘리다] shed sham[false / crocodile] tears
- 아기가 울고 있군! : The baby is crying!
- 슬프면 실컷 울게나 : If you are sad, have a good[long] cry[weep to your heart's content]
- 어디에서 뻐꾸기가 울고 있다 : Somewhere a cuckoo was calling
- 밖에서는 매미가 울고 있었다 : There were cicadas singing out side
- 귀뚜라미는 여름 내내 즐거운 듯이 울고 있었다 : Grasshoppers chirped happily all summer
- 다리미가 뜨거워서 비단이 울었다 : The hot iron make puckers in (the piece of) silk
- 벽지를 잘못 바르면 운다 : Wallpaper cockles when you paste it wrongly
- 바람에 전깃줄이 윙윙 운다 : The wind sets up a humming in the wires
- 바람에 문풍지가 울었다 : The wind whistled through the crack in the door
- 뱃고동이 울었다 : The steam whistle blew
* 울리다 : passive form of 울다 by '-리-'; (1) let cry; move[touch] to tears (2) [=소리를 내다] ring ; sound ; beat ; jingle ; chime ; clang ; blow (3) [=소리가 나다] sound; ring; peal(방울 등이); go bang(쾅하고); roar; [=울려 퍼지다] thunder; rumble; roll(뇌성이); boom(대포가); [=소리가 반향하다] echo; resound; reverberate (4) [=세력이 들날리다•세력이 드날리다] wield; sway; dominate; [=평판이 알려지다] be widely[well] known; resound; be famous[celebrated
* 울렸다 : past tense of 울리다 by '-였-'; 리 + -였 contracted into 렸
* 울렸어요 : 울렸(the stem of 울렸다) + -어(a descriptive verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 울렸는데요 : 울렸(the stem of 울렸다) + -는데(a suffix has a nuance of hesitation to say other people; this used after the stem of a verb ends in a vowel) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 울렸습니다 : 울렸(the stem of 울렸다) + 스(a suffix makes a verb honourific; 스 + -ㅂ contracted into 습) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)
* a verb + -다 / -네 / -어 / -는데 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -네 / -어 / -는데 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb +-습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '스' / '-ㅂ'
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