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Basics - Lesson 11 - Using -seyo Lesson
By Learn Korean Admin - 16/09/2025
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Making requests more politeThe polite honorific -seyo can be used to make requests more polite, -seyo is used when the verb stem ends in in a vowel, and -useyo is used when the verb stem ends in a consonant.Examples of these are:- mashi- becomes mashiseyo ha- becomes haseyo kidari- becomes kidariseyo iss- becomes issuseyo anj- becomes anjuseyo If you want to request someone to wait for you, you would say kidariseyo (Please wait !!). The use of -seyo means that you have a special respect for the person, for example if you sayhansongsaengnim-i hakkyo-e kaseyo ,you are saying Mr Han is going to school. ( But you are also showing special respect for him ). What you want to do ?Koreans use -ko ship'oyo which literally means want to, and this can be added to a verb stem.For example you may say, cho-nun mok-ko ship'oyo which means I want to eat, notice that when it is used, the -ko is utilised by being added to the end of the verb stem. Making SuggestionsWhen making suggestions, Koreans use -(u)pshida ( literally means lets do), as you may have guessed, -pshida is attached onto verb stems ending in a vowel, and -upshida is attached to verbstems ending in a consonant.Here are some examples:- Umryosu mashipshida ( Lets have a drink ) |
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