Let's learn about "통화 길게 못 해요"

통화 길게 못 해요 : I can’t talk long

[other expressions]

<반말(talking down to)>

- 통화 길게 못 한다. (to younger people or friends)

- 통화 길게 못 하네. (to younger people or friends)

- 통화 길게 못 하는데. (to younger people or friends)

- 통화 길게 못 해. (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>

- 통화 길게 못 하네요. (honourific by '-요')

- 통화 길게 못 하는데요. (honourific by '-요')

- 통화 길게 못 해요. (honourific by '-요')

- 통화 길게 못 합니다. (formal; honourific by '-ㅂ')

* [Memo]

* Extreme honorifics(극존칭) are not used when the subject(주어) is not a person(사람). In other words, extreme honorifics(극존칭) are used only when the subject(주어) is a person(사람) :  주어가 사람이 아닌 경우는 극존칭을 사용하지 않는다. 즉, 주어가 사람인 경우에만 극존칭을 사용한다

[explanations]

* 통화[通話] : conversation by telephone; a telephone call

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

* 길다 : [ㄹ 불규칙] be long

* 긴 : long; 길(the stem of 길다; ㄹ erased before ㄴ; 기 + -ㄹ contracted into 길) + -ㄴ(a suffix makes a state verb adnominal)

* 길게 : adverb form of 길다 by '-게'

* 못 : this makes the following verb negative

* 하다 : do

* 못 하다 : can't do; be unable to do

* 한다 : present tense of 하다 by '-ㄴ'

* 하는데 : 하(the stem of 하다) + -는데/-ㄴ데(a descriptive verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)

* 해요 : 하(the stem of 하다; 하 + -어 contracted into 해) + -어(a descriptive verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)

* 합니다 : 하(the stem of 하다; 하 + -ㅂ contracted into 합) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -다 / -네 / -아 / -어 / -는데 : a non-honourific declarative verb ending suffix

* a verb + -네 / -아 / -어 / -는데 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix by '-요'

* a verb +  -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '-ㅂ'