2025-04-22

Let's learn about "전화 왔었다고 전해 드리죠"

전화 왔었다고 전해 드리죠 : I’ll tell him you called

[other expressions]
<반말(talking down to)>
- 전화 왔었다고 전해 줄게. (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>
- 전화 왔었다고 전해 줄게요. (honourific by '-요')

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>
- 전화 왔었다고 전해 드리지요. (more homourific by '-드리다')
- 전화 왔었다고 전해 드리죠. (more homourific by '-드리다'; -죠 is a short form of -지요)
- 전화 왔었다고 전해 주겠습니다. (formal; more homourific by '-스')
- 전화 왔었다고 전해 드리겠습니다. (formal; more homourific by '-스')

[explanations]
* 내 / 나 : I (non-honourific word)
* 제 / 저: I (honourific word)
* -가 : a particle makes 내 / 나 / 제 / 저 subjective after a word ends in a vowel

* 전화 : [電話] a telephone; a phone; a phone call;  a ring; a cell phone; a mobile phone
* -가 : a particle makes 전화 subjective after a word ends in a vowel

* 오다 : come
* 왔다 : past tense of 오다 by '-았-'; 오 + -았 contracted into 왔
* 왔었다 : past perfect of 왔다 by '-았-'

* 전화(가) 오다 : Telephone rings
* 전화(가) 왔다 : I got a call
* 전화(가) 왔었다 : There was a call

* 왔었다고 : 왔었(the stem of 왔었다) + -다고(An expression used to pass along what the speaker heard from another person, or to present the subject's thoughts, opinions, etc: 다른 사람에게서 들은 내용을 간접적으로 전달하거나 주어의 생각, 의견 등을 나타내는 표현)

* 전하다 : (1) [소식이나 물건 등] tell; communicate; deliver; hand (over) (2) [=물려주다] hand down; transmit; leave; bequeath (3) [=전수(傳授)하다] teach; [=전하여 보내다] pass on to; impart; initiate (4) [=들여오다] introduce.5 [열·빛·소리 등을 전도(傳導)하다] transmit; conduct; propagate; convey
- 이 서류를 그에게 전해 주십시오 : Please hand these papers (over) to him
- 이것은 대대로 전해 내려오는 가훈이다 : This is a family precept transmitted[handed down] from generation to generation
- 지식을 전하다 : impart knowledge to
- 비법을 전하다 : initiate in the mysteries of an art
- 내가 알고 있는 것은 이제 모두 제자들에게 전했다 : I have taught my pupils everything I know. / I have imparted all my knowledge to my pupils
- 한국에 기독교를 전하다 : introduce Christianity into Korea
- 진동을 전하다 : propagate vibration
- 구리는 전기를 전한다 : Copper conducts[transmits] electricity
- 공기는 소리를 전한다 : Air conveys sound

* 전해 : 전하(the stem of 전하다; 하 + -어 contracted into 해) + -어(a connective suffix between two verbs)

* 주다 : (1) give (2) have an effort to in the sentence
* 준다 : present form of 주다 by '-ㄴ'
* 드리다 : an honourific form of 주다

* 줄게요 : 주(the stem of 주다; 주 + -ㄹ contracted into 줄) + -ㄹ(a suffix makes a verb future tense) + -게(one’s will) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 주겠습니다 : 주(the stem of 주다) + -겠(one’s will) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific; 스 + -ㅂ contracted into 습) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific declarative verb ending suffix)

* 드리지요 : 드리(the stem of 드리다) + -지(a declarative verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 드릴게요 : 드리(the stem of 드리다; 리 + -ㄹ contracted into 릴) + -ㄹ(a suffix makes a verb future tense) + -게(one’s will) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 드리겠습니다 : 드리(the stem of 드리다) + -겠(one’s will) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific; 스 + -ㅂ contracted into 습) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific declarative verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -게 : a non-honourific declarative verb ending suffix has an honourific
* a verb + -게 + -요 : an honourific ending suffix
* a verb + -지요 / -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : a declarative verb ending suffix has an honourific by ‘-스’ / ‘-ㅂ’ / '-요'

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