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What is the difference between ๋๋ฅผ and ๋๋ and ๋น์ and ๋น์ ์ ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between ๋๋ฅผ and ๋๋ and ๋น์ and ๋น์ ์ ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Many study books say English 'you' is '๋น์ ' in Korean.
But this is a big mistake.
I do not think this big mistake is due to editor's carelessness.
This mistake is due to Korean language's character.
English 'you' covers almost all cases, but there is no word exactly equivalent to English 'you' in Korean.
๋ is close to 'you' but ๋ can be used to friends or familiar younger people than the speaker. ๋ is informal or casual.
There is no word equivalent to 'you' which can be used to older people or higher ranker than the speaker.
Koreans use hearer's position, not ๋น์ to imply 'you' when the speaker says to older people or higher ranker, or unfamiliar younger people.
Ex)
Are you tired, dad? => ์๋น ํผ๊ณคํ์ธ์?
There is no saying 'you' (in Korean), is just position ์๋น . (There is no saying ๋น์ .)
The Korean language has many words to imply 'you' (in Korean) instead of '๋น์ ': ์ ์๋, ๋ถ์ฅ๋, ์ฌ์ฅ๋, ์ด๋ฅด์ , ์ด๋ชจ, ์ธ๋, ํ์, ์ ์์ด, ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋.
๋น์ (You) is used only between spouses(wife & husband), otherwise, they(Not spouses) usually use ๋น์ when they are angry. It is ironic that ๋น์ is used both in soft situations (Between spouses or wife & husband) and stomy situations (Between arguing people), but it is real and true.
๋น์ can be impolite(informal) sometimes even though ๋น์ is formal.
(From Astrophil's answer):
We(They) usually add ์จ after his/her name and/or ๋ after a position.
Maria => ๋ง๋ฆฌ์์จ
Bongwoo => ๋ด์ฐ์จ
To a teacher: ์ ์๋
To a professor: ๊ต์๋
And we(they) usually say ์ ์๋ to a stranger who looks older than the speaker. It doesn't have to do with a teacher.
๊ทธ๋ is like, an old and (very) formal word, not used in life. It has been used in a poem, lyrics... etc.
์๋ค is used when older person calls younger person "์๋ค". ์๋ค is ํ๊ฒ์ฒด style, which means familiar style.
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