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(아까) 왜 안 받았어요? : Why didn’t you pick up the phone?; How come you didn’t answer the phone?; Why didn’t you answer the phone earlier?

[other expressions]

<반말(talking down to)>

- (아까) 왜 안 받았니? (to the younger or friends)

- (아까) 왜 안 받았나? (to the younger or friends)

- (아까) 왜 안 받았냐? (to the younger or friends)

- (아까) 왜 안 받았지? (to the younger or friends)

- (아까) 왜 안 받았는가? (to the younger or friends)

- (아까) 왜 안 받았는지? (to the younger or friends)

- (아까) 왜 안 받았는데? (to the younger or friends)

- (아까) 왜 안 받았어? (to the younger or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>

- (아까) 왜 안 받았나요? ((honourific by '-요')

- (아까) 왜 안 받았지요? ((honourific by '-요')

- (아까) 왜 안 받았죠? ((honourific by '-요'; 죠 is a short form of -지요)

- (아까) 왜 안 받았는가요? ((honourific by '-요')

- (아까) 왜 안 받았는지요? ((honourific by '-요')

- (아까) 왜 안 받았는데요? ((honourific by '-요')

- (아까) 왜 안 받았어요. (honourific by '-요')

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>

- (아까) 왜 안 받았습니까? (formal; more hinourific by ‘십’)

[explanations]

* 아까 : a short while ago; a short time ago

- 아까부터 : for some time / since a while ago

- 아까 들은 뉴스에 따르면 : according to the latest news(cast)

- 그 일에 대해서는 아까 들었습니다 : I('ve) just heard about it

- 아까부터 정전이다 : The electricity has been off since a little while ago

* 왜 : why

* 전화 : [電話] a telephone; a phone; a phone call;  a ring; a cell phone; a mobile phone

* -를 : a particle makes 전화 objective after a word ends in a vowel

* 안 : this is equal to "not" in English

* (-을/-를) 받다 : [Pronunciation: 바따] (1) receive (2) suffer

* 받는다 : present tense of 받다

* 받았다 : [Pronunciation: 바닫따] past tense of 받다 by '-았-'

* 받아요? : 받았(the stem of 받았다) + -아?(a non-honourific interrogative  verb ending suffix)

* 받았습니까? : 받았(the stem of 받았다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific; 스 + -ㅂ contracted into 습) + -ㅂ니까?(an honourific interrogative  verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -니? / -나? / -냐? / -어? / -지? / -는지? / -ㄴ지? / -는가? / -ㄴ가? / -는데? : a non-honourific interrogative  verb ending suffix

* a verb + -나? / -어? / -지? / -는지? / -ㄴ지? / -는가? / -ㄴ가? / -는데? +  -요 : an honourific ending suffix

* a verb + -습니까? / -ㅂ니까? : an honourific  interrogative  verb ending suffix by ‘시-‘ / ‘-ㅂ’ / ‘-요’