Imperative mood in Korean

Verb + 십시오 / 으십시오

십시오 - if a word ends in a vowel or ㄹ, 으십시오 - if it ends in a consonant (except ㄹ)

In Korean language, -십시오 / -으십시오 and all other sentence endings that you see below, are used to give commands or ask someone to do something.

-십시오. / -으십시오. - very polite formal.

-세요. / -으세요. - polite formal, polite informal.

-아요. / -어요. / -여요. - polite informal.

-아. / -어. / -여. - casual.

-아라. / -어라. / -여라. - depending on the tone of the speaker it can be casual just like -아. / -어. / -여., or strong and harsh.

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금요일 오후 5시까지 오십시오. (오세요. 와요. 와. 와라.)

늘 건강하십시오. (건강하세요. 건강해요. 건강해. 건강해라.)

조용히 하십시오. (하세요. 해요. 해. 해라.)

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Vowels: a, e, i, o, u

Consonants: b, c, d, f, g, h, j

Syllable: Bra-zil (2 syllables), Ar-gen-ti-na (4), In-di-a (3), Viet-nam (2), thin-king (2), beau-ti-ful (3), good (1)

Batchim: is a final consonant in a syllable. → Bra-zil (batchim: 'l'), Ar-gen-ti-na (batchims: 'r' and 'n'), In-di-a ('n'), Viet-nam ('t', 'm')

Romanization: is a conversion of text (not pronunciation ! ) from different writing system (Korean, Arabic, Russian, etc.) to the Roman (Latin) alphabet.

IPA: is an alphabetic system of phonetic (pronunciation) notation.

Noun: road, user, sister, table, sky

Pronoun: I, my, we, you, they, her

Verb: to go, to study, to think, to feel

Adjective: cold, kind, hungry, curious, expensive

Adverb: quickly, nicely, never, exactly, urgently

Preposition: from, to, on, in, with, till

Conjuction: and, because, if, but, while

Declarative sentence: I learn Korean.

Interrogative sentence: Do you learn Korean?

Imperative sentence: You must learn Korean!

Exclamative sentence: Wow, you learn Korean!

Verb / Adj. stem in Korean: part of a verb or adj. which is left after removing the last syllable -다 ( e.g. 가다 → 가, 예쁘다 → 예쁘, 듣다 → 듣 ).