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What is the difference between 안녕하세요 and 안녕하십니까? Is the latter just more formal?
Ending "(으)세요" is a more formal ending used for when you're talking about someone formally (like a teacher) or when you're giving a command, like "읽으세요" (please read).
I get the impression that over two thirds of the questions in the discussions for this course could be solved by either Googling "Korean honorifics" or studying the particles.
hmm, if you are talking to your friends you'd rather say '안녕' It's like 안녕<안녕하세요<안녕하십니까
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Among adults, peers, strangers: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/ko/polite_speech_level/tips-and-notes.
No. From what I understand 요 is a formal ending that can be used with everyone. If you don't have 요 or any other form of honorific then it is 반말
Except that it is not “How are you?”, the only similarity is that it is a question. It is not used everywhere that “How are you?” is used. It is used specifically as a greeting. It is closer to “Do you come in peace?” or “Are you feeling peaceful?” though that is not accepted, because those are not common greetings in English. I think it is technically {Do you do peace?} which is also not an accepted answer. Since it is used everywhere that we would say “Hello”, they translate their common expression for our common expression.
I'm pretty sure 안녕 means health and not peace. Closer to "Are you healthy/well?" But yeah, how are you should definitely be an option here.
All of them are basically are hello. Think of English. When you say How are you? most people do not expect you to say horrible or any answer besides good. How are you is basically a hello greeting now.
the difference is in the level of politeness that each is meant to convey not in the meaning
So its like if i said wagwaan as if to say hello but it basically means whats going on (whats up) but i still say it as if to say hello ?
하세요 and 하십니까 are both formal in their use. Most people in Korea don't mind either one. I tend to keep my endings consistent, so I would mix them up between sentences, but it's not the end of the world (or the conversation) if you do.
This is confusing, I'm sure, for people who don't understand that 안녕하세요 is actually a question meaning roughly "Are you at peace". 안녕하십니까? is the formal form.
Cuz it literally means "do you feel comfortable?". But you don't actually have to 'answer' to the 'question'
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The literal meaning looks a little similar to "How are you?"--which I tried and had marked as wrong. What would be the proper way to ask "How are you?"
어떻게 지내습니다? = How are you? (formal politeness) 어떻게 지내세요? = How are you? (standard politeness level) 어떻게 지내? = How are you? (familiar)
어떻게 = how, in what way 지내다 = to spend time, to get along (dictionary form) - conjugated as shown above
"어떻게" can actually be spelled two ways, one meaning "how" and the other meaning something along the lines of "what do we do?" How you have spelled it implies "how" while the other way of spelling it "어떡해".
It does not mean how are you. It means hello. I usually hear 'how are you' asked as '잘 지냈어요?' which literally means 'have you been well?' 어떻게 지내습니다? works too, but it's not what I've been asked by most of the Koreans I interact with.
since 안녕 means peace and 하세요 is the verb to do, it kind of means are you in peace.. how are you can be a good translation either.
No, they have a different sentence for “How are you?” This is strictly used as a greeting like when we would say “Hello”.
잘지냈어요 fits with "How are you" but it literally means "Did you spend the past [period of time] well?" 안녕하세요 is asking about a person's well-being which is what "how are you" is doing.
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I'm not from Korea, but I have been learning Korean for a while. I have to say, a lot of it sounds very unnatural to me, to the point where I turn my speakers off ^^ But for this particular phrase, it sounds decent :3
Yeah, agreed. My Korean boyfriend overheard me practicing and he thought it was really awkward. I use Duolingo to get practice creating sentences. I think you would be better off studying pronunciation somewhere else and then reading everything aloud to yourself.
Yes, I think it would be better to go to www.lang-8.com and find a native speaker to practice with.
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Agreed. The pronunciations here sound very off. Other Korean language programs have much better pronunciation.
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Charlie_Beau: I can't reply directly to your comment, so hopefully you'll see this. Rosetta Stone online had very good audio. Also try Bravo Language.
Due to the sheer level of formality, I feel as though a more formal or archaic english greeting (such as literally "Greetings" or "salutations") would probably fit as a translation in addition to just 'Hello'.
I recall the TTIK crew discussing how this term is exceptionally rarely used in Korea, so that feels similar, in that English speakers would pretty much only use 'Greetings' on say, a formal wedding invitation.
The Korean question has a question mark which makes it confusing. I know that it means hello but put, hello how are you?
It literally means "do you do peace?" "are you at peace?" 안녕 = peace, 하세요 = you do
I'd never heard 안녕하십니까 used except by someone speaking with a dialect other than the standardised one, so I'd figured it was just 'hello' in dialect and now i'm confused. Can anyone tell me if that's just coincidence or if it's more common in dialect or anything?
it was mainly used during old korean days, and often seen more in some forms of 사투리, but you can still hear it in korea. honestly it's not the most used form to say hello but whatever floats your boat lol
"안녕하십니까?" translates as "Are you at peace?" I did hear "안녕하세요" much more often when I went to Korea, pretty much all the time. Sometimes people will reply with a "yes, hello" but not that often. It might seem strange to greet someone with a question but in Australia we say "how are you?" to say hello all the time and don't expect an answer back, so for me it's pretty familiar.
안녕하십니까 is a more formal thing to say. You use it primarily with people like your boss or with your grandparents, as examples
Why in Korean this statement ends with question mark But the English translation ends with the exclamation mark?
Please scroll up It is a greeting which happens to be a question in Korean, but it does not exactly mean hello so you would not add a question mark in English. It is used when we would say Hello.
안녕하세요 has a double meaning. Hello, and how are you? With the question mark at the end it would mean how are you, which is marked as incorrect. So they need to remove the question mark I think.
Please scroll up as this is explained it is a question, but it is really just used as a greeting; however, it is not "How are you?" which also exists in Korean.
"Hi" is not equivalent since it's informal. This version is the most formal way of saying hello, so that doesn't fit.
It is actually the middle form out of three forms, but it is still not casual enough for “hi”.
That is correct. Korean has different forms based on whether something is informal or formal.
When we would say "Hello", they would ask this question which has to do with peace rather than health which is a different question in Korean.
Why is there a ?. I know there are other answers to this but i still dont get it.
It is a question about peace that they use as a greeting like we use “Hello”.
Doesn't 안녕하십니까? mean to how are you? Because there is question mark at the end of these sentence.
여보세요 is only use when speaking on the phone and 안녕하십니까 is use when speaking directly but in a formal way
The greeting in Korean is a question about peace, but it is used when we would say "Hello".
isn't it 안녕 for informal and 안녕하세오 for formal? if I am wrong please tell me so. thank you for understanding.
Let me make it clear. 안녕 = well-being, peace or health 하서요 = you do, do you? please do So if we combain those 2 words it sounds like you are asking about someone's condition. Maybe in english we used to say "How do you do?"
It is not about health though and Korean has another question for health. This is a greeting used instead of “Hello”.
This is what you say when you answer the phone. 니까 signifies a question in korean. So when you answer the phone you don't say 안녕하세요, just like in english we say "hello?" rather than just hello when answering the phone when we don't know who the other end is.
Yes. It's normally used towards the elderly or high up superiors, whereas the latter is for everyday people/strangers, peers, and closer older people/superiors. My personal (and possibly incorrect) rule thumb is to be super respectful to anyone 70+ years old. (60-70 is in between; depends on how you know them).
I'm confused with this (안녕하십니까?) all together. Why does it mean "Hello!"? Isn't "까" a question ending particle? Can someone clarify this for me?
okay, great. this is so confusing. When am I supposed t use this form?
Sorry, can someone who is 100% positive explain to me what the difference of each way to say Hello is?
30+ years of being Korean tells me that "안녕하세요 / 하십니까" is asking "Are you well/healthy/at peace?" "안녕" is a shortened form of it "여보세요" is I think a shortened slang for "여기 보세요" which is "look here" or "excuse me," but is used for greeting.
This doesn't help tell people what 안녕하다 actually means. People are going to just think it means "hello" with a question mark.
Just an observation, correct me if im wrong :) 안녕하세요 Is like "Hello!" "Greetings" etc While 안녕하십니까 Is closer to the english "whats up?" Or "how're you?" As a greeting ; its technically a question but not needing an answer as its merely a greeting nonetheless
So, can you use this when, for example, you enter a store and there's no one at the counter? And/or when, in horror movies, you enter a stranger's house and you don't see anyone but there's a creepy sound and you're like, "...안녕하씹니까..?
That is not what the Korean is asking. This is the first thing that they say when we would say “Hello!”, but their greeting is closer to “Are you at peace?” (Literally, “do you do peace?”) I wonder if we could get them to accept “Do you come in peace?”
Why would this not translate into a question like "Are you well?" or "How are you?"
That is a different question which Korean also has, according to someone above, please scroll all the way up.
No, this is a different question about peace which is used instead of “Hello”
The intonation was indicative of a question, so I put in, "Are you ok? It said I was wrong.
You are wrong. They have another question for “Are you ok?” and “How are you?” This question is about peace, but it is used as a standard greeting instead of “Hello”
Little bit confused as to why there's a question mark at the end of the hello. Is buddy raising his eye brow as he says it?
This question was answered. Our greeting is “Hello!”, but in Korean the greeting is closer to “Are you at peace?”
My teacher told me that 안녕하세요? is "Hello, how are you?" because you have the interrogative mark.
I think in English it's easy to understand it as "Hello, how are you?" when it's just a variant on greetings, or questions that don't expect actual answers. When someone says to most people, "How are you" or "How have you been?" very casually, most people would reply with another generic response that doesn't actually mean much ("Good!" "Great!" "I'm well and you?").
This would not take that type of answer as the question is about peace though it also does not expect an answer. It is used instead of “Hello”
but then, is the answer 한녕하세요 or something else about your feelings?
