2025-06-28

Let's learn about "3시까지는 전화가 안 될 거예요"

3시까지는 전화가 안 될 거예요 : You can’t reach me until 3 p.m; I won’t be able to get it until 3 p.m

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A. 오후 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 거예요 : You can’t reach me until 3 p.m.

B. 좋아요. 그럼 세 시 이후에 하죠. 그래도 되죠? : Alright then. I’ll call you after 3. Is that okay?

[other expressions]
<반말(talking down to)>
- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 거다. (to younger people or friends)
- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 거네. (to younger people or friends)
- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 거야. (to younger people or friends)

- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 것이다. (to younger people or friends)
- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 것이네. (to younger people or friends)
- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 것이야. (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>
- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 거네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 거예요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 겁니다. (formal; honourific by ‘ㅂ’)

- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 것이네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 것이에요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 3시까지는 전화가 안 될 것입니다. (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]
* 내 / 나 : I (non-honourific word)
* 제 / 저 : I (honourific word)
* -가 : a particle makes 내 / 제 subjective after a word ends in a vowel
* -는 : a particle makes 너 / 저 subjective after a word ends in a vowel

* 3시 : [Pronunciation: 세시] [=세 시] 3 o'clock
* -까지 : till; untill
* -는 : a suffix emphasizes 3시까지

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

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

* 되다 : be possibel; can; be able to do

* 될 : 쉬시(the stem of 되다; 되 + -ㄹ contracted into 될) + -ㄹ(a suffix makes a verb future tense and adnominal)

* adnominal [관형사(형)] : an adjective or a modifying phrase attached to or modifying a noun, a noun phrase, a noun clause or a noun sentence
* adverbial [부사(형)] : an adverb attached to or modifying a verb

* 거 / 것 : this makes 될 infinitive or genrund in English

* 이다 : be

* -을/-를/-ㄹ 거다 = * -을/-를/-ㄹ 것이다 : This creates a sentence that the speaker guesses like "I think that ~; I guess that ~"

* -입니다 : 이(the stem of 이다; 이 + -ㅂ contracted into 입) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a noun + -(이)다 / -(이)네 / -(이)야 : a non-honourific descriptive form of 이다
* a noun + -(이)네 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a noun + -이에요 / -예요 / -입니다 : an honourific descriptive form of 이다 by ‘-요’ / ‘-ㅂ'

* -이에요 : this is used after a word ends in a consonant
ex) 생각뿐이에요 : I think of you only
* -예요 : : this is used after a word ends in a vowel
ex) 바다예요 : this is the sea

* 좋은 : [Pronunciation: 조은] good; great
* 좋다 : [Pronunciation: 조타] (1) be good; be great (2) alright in the sentence

* 좋아요 : [Pronunciation: 조아요] 좋(the stem of 좋다) + -아(a declarative verb ending suffix) + -요(a honourific ending suffix)

* 그러하다 / 그렇다 : be such
* 그래 : (1) [긍정의 대답(an affirmative answer)] yes; ok; okay [부정 의문문(a negative question)] no (2) [감탄•가벼운 놀라움] a word indicates an exclamation;a slight surprise
* 그래요? : 그래 + -요?(a non-honourific interrogative ending suffix)

* 그럼 = 그러면 : then

* 3시 : [Pronunciation: 세시] [=세 시] 3 o'clock

* 이후 : [以後] [=금후] after this; from now on[this time (on)]; [=그 후] after that time; since then; from that time on; afterward(s); [=그후 지금까지] ever since
- 그때 이후 지금까지 : from that time down to this day

* -에 : a time suffix

* 하다 : (1) do (2) call in the sentecen

* 그러하다 / 그리하다 / 그렇다 : [Pronunciation: 그럳타] be so; be such

* 그래도 : a short form of 그리하여도 / 그러하여도 <-- 그러하다(be such; do such) + -여도(even though; though)

* 그리하여도 / 그러하여도 / 그래도 : but (still); and yet; nevertheless; though; still; however; all the same; for all that; at any rate; like that

* 되다 : be possible; can; be able to do

* 되죠? : a short form of 되지요?
* 되지요? : 되(the stem of 되다) + -지(an interrogative verb ending suffix) + -요(an hokourific ending suffix)

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