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- The formal request and instruction
Korean grammar · Speech Room
V-(으)십시오 · -지 마십시오
The formal request and instruction
Taught in Speech Room, Unit 2: Formal style 2: at work and on announcements
you know how to say ‘please wait’ in 해요체. But signs, announcements and the office phone use a stronger, formal form, and you already saw it in 안녕히 계십시오. Now you can build it.
Example
여기에 앉으십시오.
Please sit here.
The full explanation is in the unit · part of the Speech Room Pass, opening soon · Speech Room, Unit 2
Formal style 2: at work and on announcements
The rule with a table, Sori’s tips, practice that checks itself, a review room and a one-page cheat sheet.
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