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Korean grammar · Life in Korea

-(으)세요? · -(으)셨어요? · -아/어 주세요

What the desk asks - and how you answer

Taught in Life in Korea, Unit 6: At the clinic and pharmacy

reception asks in a fixed script, always in the honorific -(으)시-, and that is the moment learners freeze. Once you know the script you hear the same six sentences everywhere.

Example

  • 처음 오셨어요? 이 종이에 이름을 써 주세요.

    Is this your first time? Please write your name on this paper.

The full explanation is in the unit · part of the Life in Korea Pass, opening soon · Life in Korea, Unit 6

At the clinic and pharmacy

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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