"My grandfather works."
Translation:우리 할아버지께서 일하세요.
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Why do they teach us 할아버님 in the lesson notes for the honorific of 'grandfather', but in the example sentences 할아버님께서 is wrong?
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As they had in the lesson notes, you do not use the honorific to refer to yourself, but also your own. "The honorific suffix -님 (-nim) is affixed to many kinship terms to make them honorific. Thus, someone may address his own grandmother as 할머니 (halmeoni) but refer to someone else's grandmother as 할머님 (halmeonim)." -- Sohn, C. S. (2010), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_honorifics#Honorific_pronouns_and_nouns
The grandchildren use 할배 or 할매 and I am to say 장인 (father-in-law) or 장모 (mother-in-law), nobody mentioning the 님. There is more to it, but I cannot recall what the Korean teacher I met in passing said about this, sorry.
"우리 할아버지" 275, 000 (~99%)
"우리 할아버님" 3, 980 (I'd guess this means the elderly man among us . . .)
Actually, in Korean, 우리 can be used instead of my. For example: 우리 엄마 instead of 나의/내 엄마, and it's actually more common to say 우리. But, it is seldom used with 의. Which means that, 우리의 엄마 is not used to express 'my mother', but may be used to express 'our mother'.
No. Its just usually when you're talking about your family members you say "our grandfather" even though you mean "mine"
We use 우리 in some other cases too: namely 우리나라(our country), even when you're speaking alone to a forigner(where you'd say my country in English).
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Hmm in other Duolingo courses they prefer to use the literal translation in cases like this, but thanks for the explanation!
My is just 우리의 하라버님, but our can also be 우리들이 하라버님, if you want to be very clear that it's our grandfather.
why is it 할아버지께서 instead of 할아버님께서 which is how it is in the notes, and in all the other questions on this lesson?
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Why don't you just show me the correct translation when i mouse over the words is this really so difficult
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It's not really "incorrect" and actually seems to be quite common, but Duo is after the honorific usage, which is the most respectful, and so arguably the "most correct."