부서를 잘못 찾으셨어요 : You have the wrong department; You got the wrong department; You dialed the wrong department
ex)
A. 홍보부 아닌가요? : Isn’t this the PR department?
B. 부서를 잘못 찾으셨네요 : You have the wrong department
[other expressions]
<반말(talking down to)>
- 부서를 잘못 찾았다. (to younger people or friends)
- 부서를 잘못 찾았네. (to younger people or friends)
- 부서를 잘못 찾았어. (to younger people or friends)
<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>
- 부서를 잘못 찾았네요. (honourific by ‘요’)
- 부서를 잘못 찾았어요. (honourific by ‘요’)
<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>
- 부서를 잘못 찾았습니다. (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)
[explanations]
* 부서[部署] : one's post (of duty); one's place; department
* -를 : a particle makes 부서 objective after a word ends in a vowel
* 잘못 : [=과실] a fault; an error; a misstep; a slip; [=오류] a mistake; [=죄과] a blame
- 큰 잘못 : a gross error
- 작은 잘못 : a slight/minor error
- 잘못을 깨닫다 : notice a mistake[an error]
- 잘못을 저지르다 : make a mistake / err
- 잘못을 인정하다 : admit[acknowledge] a mistake
- 자기 잘못을 깨닫다 : realize[see / perceive] one's error
* 잘못하다 : make a mistake[an error]; err; do wrongly[improperly / amiss]; misdo; blunder
* 잘못되다 : go wrong[badly] / be unsuccessful / make a mess of
* 찾다 : find; search
* 찾았다 : past tense of 찾다 by ‘-았-‘
* 찾았습니다 : 찾았(the stem of 찾았다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific verb ending suffix by ‘스’)
* a verb + -다 / -네 / -어 : an non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -네 / -어 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb + -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by ‘스-‘ / ‘-ㅂ’
* 홍보 : [弘報] public information; public relations; P.R; publicity
* 홍보하다 : publicize.
* 홍보과 : [弘報課] [Pronunciation: 홍보꽈] the Public Information Section
* 홍보부 : [弘報部] the Public Information Section
* -가 : a particle makes 홍보부 subjective after a word ends in a vowel; this omitted
* 아니다 : be not
* 아닌가요? : 아니(the stem of 아니다; 니 + -ㄴ contracted into 닌) + -ㄴ가?(an interrogative verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
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