KREN 2001 Lecture 1: KOR 2001 - Lesson 1
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In korean, there are two ways of showing the speaker"s respectfulness toward the listener: using (1) honorific words or using (2) humble words. The speaker can be respectful by either (1) raising the listener"s position higher, or (2) lowering her/his position in style. Is a combination of the humble form of 1st person pronoun, , and the subject marker, , but a little modification happened to the combined form. The honorific form is used to express the speaker"s respect for the subject (person) of a sentence. The honorific form is used when the person is older or higher in social status than the speaker. The honorific form is also commonly used when the speaker doesn"t know or isn"t overly familiar with the person, even if that person is younger or lower in status than the speaker. The following five verbs have special honorific forms. (present tense) (past tense) (future tense) (cid:45362) (cid:40600) (cid:45362) (cid:40601) (cid:45362) (cid:45362) (cid:40601) (cid:40601) .
