2025-03-17

Let's learn about "주무시고 계셨나요?"

주무시고 계셨나요? : Were you asleep?

[other expressions]
<반말(talking down to)>
- 자고 있었니? (to younger people or friends)
- 자고 있었나? (to younger people or friends)
- 자고 있었냐? (to younger people or friends)
- 자고 있었지? (to younger people or friends)
- 자고 있었는가? (to younger people or friends)
- 자고 있었는지? (to younger people or friends)
- 자고 있었어? (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>
- 자고 있었나요? (honourific by '-요')
- 자고 있었지요? (honourific by '-요')
- 자고 있었죠? (-죠 is a short form of -지요?)
- 자고 있었는가요? (honourific by '-요')
- 자고 있었는지요? (honourific by '-요')
- 자고 있었어요? (honourific by '-요')

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>
- 주무시고 있었습니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)

- 주무시고 계셨나요? (honourific by ‘시’)
- 주무시고 계셨지요? (honourific by ‘시’)
- 주무시고 계셨죠? (-죠 is a short form of -지요?)
- 주무시고 계셨는가요? (honourific by ‘시’)
- 주무시고 계셨는지요? (honourific by ‘시’)
- 주무시고 계셨어요? (honourific by ‘시’)
- 주무시고 계셨습니까? (honourific by ‘시’)

[explanations]
* 자다 : sleep
* 주무시다 : an honourific form of 자다 to the elderly

* -고 있다 / -고 계시다 : be ...ing; be in the middle of ..ing

* 있다 : (1) be; exist (2) have (3) be in the middle of …ing

* 계시다 : honourific form of 있다 to the eldrly by '시-'

* 있었다 : past tense of 있다 by '-었-'
* 계셨다 : past tense of 계시다 by '-였-'

* 있으셨다 : honourific form of 있었다 to the elderly by '시-'

* 있었습니까? : 있었(the stem of 있었다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + ㅂ니까?(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)

* 계셨나요? : 계셨(the stem of 계셨다) + 나?(an interrogative verb ending suffix) + 요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 계셨어요? : 계셨(the stem of 계셨다) + 어?(an interrogative verb ending suffix) + 요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 계셨습니까? : 계셨(the stem of 계셨다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + ㅂ니까?(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -니? / -나? / ?-냐? / -어? / -는가? / -는지? / -지 ? : an interrogative verb ending suffix
* a verb + -나? / -어? / -는가?  / -는지? / -지? + -요 : an honourific ending suffix
a verb + -습니까? / -ㅂ니까? : an interrogative verb ending suffix has an honourific by ‘스-” / ‘-ㅂ’

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