"할머니께서 우리에게 천천히 말씀하십니다."
Translation:Grandmother speaks to us slowly.
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If this is honorific and 가 turned into 께서 Then why does 우리에게 not turn into 우리께? Will that be considered regarding ourselves highly? Like super rude and we shouldn't do that?
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No. 말씀하다 is the honorific alternative of 말하다. It's a verb in itself.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/말씀하다
말씀하다 + 시다 + (스)ㅂ니다 → 말씀하 + 시 + ㅂ니다 → 말씀하십니다
-here so you are using 2 honors to the 3rd person ad 1 to the listener ( 1말씀하 - 2 시 -- 1 ㅂ니다 ) - so then , is it possible if you say 말씀해요 ? you don't use honor to the listener and also remove 시 ?
-or 말씀하 should always come with 시 ?
-anyways , why do we even use 말씀하 ? can't we use 말하다 + 시 ? isn't 시 enough honor it's self ???
How do I tell the difference between 우리 meaning 'we' and 우리 meaning 'me'? I learnt that 우리 only meant 'me' in formal cases but the verb was conjugated formally in this sentence
우리 means we, our, us and not me or my. However if you talk about the family, Koreans always say "our brother" or "our mother" instead of "my brother" etc. So you use 우리. It's just the way you talk about your(our) family in Korean.
If you are an only child and have no other siblings, will you still say "our mother" instead of "my mother"?
-here so you are using 2 honors to the 3rd person ad 1 to the listener ( 1말씀하 - 2 시 -- 1 ㅂ니다 ) - so then , is it possible if you say 말씀해요 ? you don't use honor to the listener and also remove 시 ?
-or 말씀하 should always come with 시 ?
-anyways , why do we even use 말씀하 ? can't we use 말하다 + 시 ? isn't 시 enough honor it's self ???
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Are honorific words be used only to speak of another person, only when we use "she" and "he" ?