2025-05-12

Let's learn about "제가 다시 전화할게요"

제가 다시 전화할게요 = 제가 다시 전화(를) 걸게요 : I’ll call you back; I’ll talk to you later; Can I call you back?; Let me get back to you in a few minutes.

ex)

A. 토미, 어디야? : Tommy, where are you?

B. 엄마? 지금 전철 안이에요. 제가 나중에 다시 할게요 : Mom? I’m on the subway. Can I call you back?

[other expressions]
<반말(talking down to)>
- 내가 다시 전화할게. (to younger people or friends)

- 내가 다시 전화를 할게. (to younger people or friends)

- 내가 다시 전화 걸게. (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>
- 제가 다시 전화할게요. (honourific by '-요')

- 제가 다시 전화를 할게요. (honourific by '-요')

- 제가 다시 전화 걸게요. (honourific by '-요')

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>
- 제가 다시 전화하겠습니다. (formal; more homourific by '-스')

- 제가 다시 전화를 하겠습니다. (formal; more homourific by '-스')

- 제가 다시 전화 걸겠습니다. (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 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a vowel

* 나중 : later
* -에 : a time suffix

* 다시 : again

* 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

* 전화하다 = 전화를 하다 = 전화를 걸다 : call someone by one’s phone

* 전화할게요 : 전화하(the stem of 전화하다; 하 + -ㄹ contracted into 할) + -ㄹ(a suffix makes a verb future tense) + -게(one’s will) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 전화하겠습니다 : 전화하(the stem of 전화하다) + -겠(one’s will) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific; 스 + -ㅂ contracted into 습) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific declarative verb ending suffix)

* 할게요 : 하(the stem of 하다; 하 + -ㄹ contracted into 할) + -ㄹ(a suffix makes a verb future tense) + -게(one’s will) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 하겠습니다 : 하(the stem of 하다) + -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 + -ㄹ게 : a non-honourific declarative verb ending suffix has an honourific
* a verb + -ㄹ게 + -요 : an honourific ending suffix
* a verb + -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : a declarative verb ending suffix has an honourific by ‘-스’ / ‘-ㅂ’

* 토미 : Tommy

* 어디 : where

* 어디 : where
* -이다 : be

* 어디야? : 어디(where) + 이(the stem of 이다; 이 + -야 contracted into 야) + -야?(a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)

* 엄마 : Mom

* 지금 : now

* 전철[電鐵] : [=지하철] Am) subway (train), (Brit) the Underground
- 전철(을) 타다 / 지하철(을) 타다 : get on the subway (train)

* 안 : [=내부] the interior; the inside

* 이다 : be

* 안이에요 : 안 + + 이(the stem of 이다) + -에(a declarative verb ending suffix; 이 changed into 에 for easy pronjnciation) + -요(an  honourific ending suffix)

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