Talk:Korean/Verbs

Lesson plan
See Korean/Grammar course plan. Rodasmith 22:25, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Removal of examples
I'm removing the following examples for now in order to introduce topics slowly. They may be reincorporated after the lesson matures to a point where there student can understand the examples. Rodasmith 01:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Special honorific verb forms:

Advanced
Perhaps the following should be in an advanced verbs lesson: (Rodasmith 22:25, 13 June 2007 (UTC))

A few verbs have special humble forms, used when the speaker is referring to him/herself in polite situations. These include 드리다 (deurida) and 올리다 (ollida) for 주다 (juda, "give"). 드리다 (deurida) is substituted for 주다 (juda) when the latter is used as an auxiliary verb, while 올리다 (ollida, literally "raise up") is used for 주다 (juda) in the sense of "offer".

There are several speech levels in Korean, and each level has its own unique set of verb endings which are used to indicate the level of formality of a situation. Unlike "honorifics"—which are used to show respect towards a subject—speech levels are used to show respect towards a speaker's or writer's audience. The names of the 7 levels are derived from the non-honorific imperative form of the verb 하다 (hada, "to do") in each level, plus the suffix 체, which means "style."

E.g.:
 * 합니다: (formal, polite, indicative) "does"
 * 하십시오: (formal, polite, imperative) "please do"

The highest 5 levels use final verb endings and are generally grouped together as jondaemal (존대말), while the lowest 2 levels (해요체 haeyoche and 해체 haeche) use non-final endings and are called 반말 (banmal, "half-words") in Korean. (The haeyoche in turn is formed by simply adding the non-final ending -요 (-yo) to the haeche form of the verb.)

Taken together, honorifics and speech levels form a cartesian product of 14 basic verb stems. Here is a table giving the 7 levels, the present indicative form of the verb 하다 (hada, "do" in English) in each level in both its honorific and non-honorific forms, and the situations in which each level is used.

These days, some of these speech levels are disappearing and people don't use them much in everyday life. Hasoseoche, which is only used in movies or dramas describing old times, is barely used by Koreans, and Hageche exists almost only in novels. But interestingly, Haoche is becoming more and more popular among people in their teens and 20's, and this phenomenon is considered to be one of the influences by internet users. Usually Haoche is used in only movies and dramas (similar with Hasoseoche) but it is now popular (in some internet websites, e.g. dcinside.com) among internet users but not in everyday life. Haoche is usually considered as a male-tongue, but interestingly today's internet-based Haoche is very popular in Ewhaian.com which is for students of Ewha Womans University.

Needed example:
If the result ends in a vowel followed by 르, insert an extra ㄹ, making the end ㄹ르. - one problem I've always had with instructional text which introduces a bunch of rules together is if they miss giving an example of one. I'm trying to think of a verb which meets this criteria and I can't, it would be nice if someone who knew of one could add it, as well if any others are missing.--Crossmr (talk) 01:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

모르다 17 August 2009

Imperative forms
For example, juseyo, and irregulars forms and polite forms...--66.214.143.64 (talk) 17:34, 12 April 2009 (UTC)