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스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터져요? : Is Wi-Fi working fine on your phone?

[other expressions]

<반말(talking down to)>

- 스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터지니? (to younger people or friends)

- 스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터지나? (to younger people or friends)

- 스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터지냐? (to younger people or friends)

- 스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터져? (to younger people or friends)

- 스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터지는가? (to younger people or friends)

- 스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터지는지? (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>

- 스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터지나요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터져요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터지는가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터지는지요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 스마트폰의 와이파이가 잘 터집니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)

* [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]

* 휴대 : [携帶] carrying

- 휴대용의 : portable / hand / pocket / handy (to carry)

- 그는 총기를 휴대하고 있었다 : He was carrying a gun

* 전화[電話] : a telephone; a phone

* 휴대 전화 = 핸드폰 = 스마트폰 = 휴대폰 : cellphone, (formal) cellular phone, (Brit) mobile (phone); smart phone

* -의 : a suffix makes 휴대 전화 / 핸드폰 / 스마트폰 / 휴대폰 possesive

* 와이파이 : WIFI (Wireless Fidelity)

* -가 : a particle makes 스마트폰의 와이파이 subjective after a word ends in a vowel

* 잘 : well

* 터지다 : (1) [=파열되다] burst (open); break; split; splinter; (종기 등이) burst; break; open; collapse (2) [=폭발하다] explode; burst (out); go off; break out; blow up (3) [=발생하다] occur[happen] suddenly; break[burst] out; take place (4) [=탄로나다] get exposed; be[come] out; be found out; be disclosed; be revealed; come[be brought] to light (5) (샘·피 등이) spout ; spurt ; gush out (6) [=얻어맞다] get a blow; be beaten; be struck on (7) [=신호가 잘 잡혀서 통신이 잘 되다] communicate well because of good communication signal

* 터져요? : 터지(the stem of 터지다; 지 + -여 contracted into 져) + -여(an interrogative verb ending suffix; -어 changed into 여 after 지 for easy pronunciation) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)

* 터집니까? : 터지(the stem of 터지다; 지 + -ㅂ contracted into 집) + -ㅂ니까?(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -니? / -나? / -냐? / -여? / -는가? / -는지? : a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix

* a verb + -나? / -여? / -는가? / -는지? + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix

* a verb + -ㅂ니까? : an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’