Korean vocabulary list:
formality / speech level
- 구나–(formal, highly addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to imply a certain feeling in a newly learned fact
- 그이–(formal, slightly addressee-raising) The person
- 긴요–(informal addressee-raising) An expression used to lightly deny or refute the listener's remark
- 까마는–An expression used to indicate that the speaker accepts the preceding statement, while possessing questions or doubts that ultimately do not affect the following statement
- 냐–(formal, highly addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending referring to a question
- 느니라–(formal, highly addressee-lowering)(old-fashioned) A sentence-final ending used to teach someone a common truth or fact learned from the speaker's experience
- 는가–(formal, moderately addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending referring to a question about a fact of the present
- 는답디다–(formal, moderately addressee-raising) An expression used to pass along a message or fact that the speaker heard earlier
- 는데–(informal addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to admire something while anticipating the listener's response
- 다니–(formal, moderately addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to express a question about a certain fact that is assumed to be already given
- 다니–An expression used to indicate that the speaker is surprised or impressed by the explanation or statement heard
- 다니–(informal addressee-lowering) An expression used to ask the listener about what another person said
- 다니–(informal addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to ask again or admire an unexpected fact in surprise
- 다오–(formal, moderately addressee-raising) An expression used to convey what the speaker heard from another person to the listener
- 다오–(formal, moderately addressee-raising) A sentence-final ending used when the speaker says something that he/she already knows in an objective manner and conveys it to the listener
- 답디다–(formal, moderately addressee-raising) An expression used to pass along a message or fact that the speaker heard earlier
- 답디다–(formal, moderately addressee-raising) An expression used to pass along the message or fact the speaker heard earlier
- 당신–you
- 더군–(informal addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to convey a newly learned fact from a past personal experience, and indicate that the speaker notices or is impressed by it
- 던–(formal, highly addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to ask about the listener's personal experience of the past in a friendly manner
- 던가–(formal, moderately addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to ask about a fact of the past
- 디다–(formal, moderately addressee-raising) A sentence-final ending used when the speaker conveys and notifies someone of an event he/she experienced personally
- 랍디다–(formal, moderately addressee-raising) An expression used to convey the message or fact the speaker heard earlier
- 래–(informal addressee-lowering) An expression used to ask about something the listener knows from having heard it; (informal addressee-lowering) An expression used to convey another person's order, request, etc; (informal addressee-lowering) An expression used to ask the listener about the order, request, etc., the listener knows from having heard it
- 려고–(informal addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to doubt a given situation and ask again about it
- 련–(formal, highly addressee-lowering) An expression used to ask the listener in a friendly manner if he/she intends to do a certain act
- 련–(formal, highly addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to ask the listener in a friendly manner if he/she intends to accept a certain act which will be done for him/her
- 리라–(formal, highly addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used when the speaker guesses a certain situation
- 셔–(informal addressee-lowering) An expression used to raise the subject of the sentence, when stating or asking something to the listener
- 습니까–(formal, highly addressee-raising) A sentence-final ending used when the speaker asks the listener politely
- 습니다–(formal, highly addressee-raising) A sentence-final ending used to explain the present action, state, or fact politely
- 읍시다–(formal, moderately addressee-raising) A sentence-final ending used to express an intention of doing a certain action together
- 자고–(informal addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to emphatically state the speaker's thoughts or argument to the listener