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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).
hmm, if you are talking to your friends you'd rather say '안녕' It's like 안녕<안녕하세요<안녕하십니까
In my Korean class we always learning that "-까" is a question ending and that when paired with "안녕합니다" it means "How are you?" It was never based on formality level.
I don't understand about "paired with '안녕합니다.'" 안녕 is based on a Chinese expression 安寧 meaning something like "tranquility." So 안녕하십니까 would be "Are things tranquil for you, exalted one?" That means "hello" in the same sort of way that "goodbye" in English means "may God be with you," very reduced in meaning.
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"안녕하세요?" literally means "are you in peace?", that's why, the answer is "네, 안녕하세요? " meanings "yes, are you in peace?", and this is seen again when saying goodbye, "안녕히계세요" and "안녕히가세요", meaning "stay in peace" and "go in peace" respectively
It is a question used as a greeting, but it does not actually mean “How are you?” It is about peace, so it doesn’t get the same response.
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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.
I'm korean. and my english is bad. there are so many informal and formal in korean. But the typical cases are -요, -까(formal) -어, -해, -야(informal). -요 is used when you meet someone older or when you meet someone first. -까 is used when you meet someone in very very formal meeting. (business etc.) No -요, -까(안녕? 뭐'해'? -하고 있'어', -하고 있는 중이'야' etc.) is used when you talk with someone you know or someone closed(like friend)
Question? Anything is ok:)
the difference is in the level of politeness that each is meant to convey not in the meaning
"-까" is a question ending, not a polite ending. Korea did not have question marks or spaces in the past so this ending was their way of indicating a question. I believe that their translation, while fine, should include "How are you?" because this is more of a literal translation. Its much like "Ca va?" in French (excuse my lack of accents) A fairly common response is to just repeat "ca va" in a matter-of-fact tone. Its a type of greeting that is not usually intended to further the conversation.
Except that it does not mean “How are you?” which does get a standard response which would be different then here. This question is about peace, but it is used just as a greeting. Scroll down for the proper way to say “How are you?”
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.
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 ?
Closer to "You are fine" than to "How are you," which should be in interrogative form.
Cuz it literally means "do you feel comfortable?". But you don't actually have to 'answer' 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.
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.
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”.
I thought it was more of an optative, meaning something akin to ‘Are you peaceful?’
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.
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.
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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.
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?
I thought this would get a lot of discussion! My two cents: Most of the time "How are you?" is no more a question than "Hi!" or "안녕하십니까?"
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why do we learn so many speak levels without explanations in the very FIRST lessons?
Isn't it enough to know about the 1) polite and 2) informal levels in the beginning, and then - move to a little bit more rare and precise cases?
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”.
I agree w/several people above. I'm confused why "How are you?" would be an incorrect translation for "안녕하십니까?" It's not like anyone expects an answer to "How are you?" It just means "hello," a greeting, just like "안녕하십니까?" I think Duolingo has this wrong--specifically, it has the English wrong.
I feel like its just depending on the tone you say a sentence in, as i have noticed that many things that are said as non-interrogative sentences turn into questions when the tone rises. So what im saying is, don't class things in particular ways until you know for sure.
I translated it to "Hello" and it said it was wrong, correcting it to "Hello!". Unbelievable! Sometimes Duolingo just wants me to rid of my motivation I guess
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.
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?”
여보세요 is only use when speaking on the phone and 안녕하십니까 is use when speaking directly but in a formal way
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.
I think "안녕하십니다 " and "안녕하십니까?" mean the same....but the difference is the latter is rather used to draw a person's attention like "Hello" and "Hello? "
I think 안녕하십니다 would be a weird thing to say. "Things are well with you, sir/ma'am." Who would presume to say such a thing? It reminds me, though, of a time when a friend rolled down his window as we were driving past some young women and shouted, 여자들,안녕하시는가오? He had been illegally drinking beer in the back seat of a moving car as we went to Yosemite.
In the Coursera lesson for this one it translates into something along the lines of "are you in peace?"
"How are you?" was not accepted. It literally means, "Are you at peace?" That is why the response is "네". Ok, I'm done whining.
Is this the formal version of hello for strangers and elders? And from what I think the english translation does not have a ? because in english we don't have different words for strangers / elders, correct?
We would use a question mark with "How are you?" "How ya doin'?" etc. Both languages use questions about health as greetings. The 십니까 ending makes it more formal than 세요? but I think they're generally good for most occasions.
At this point i need to ask. Korean does not use both exclamation and interrogative signs, rigth ? Then how do they know by writing when it is or not a question ? I am confused about that. :( Thanks if someone can tell me !
Why? It helps remind you that 니까 marks a question, and that you should say it with question intonation.
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Why does it have to have the ending -십니까? Why can't you just have "안녕하세요?"
Is 십니다 and 십니까 a formal way to say things? Like if you put it at the end of your sentence will it sound formal?
I THOUGHT 안녕하십니까 IS A QUESTION LIKE "ARE YOU GOOD" FROM THE HANJA 安寧하십니까 literally means "Are you in peace:
