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  2. Korean honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Speakers use honorifics to indicate their social relationship with the addressee and/or subject of the conversation, concerning their age, social status, gender, degree of intimacy, and situation. One basic rule of Korean honorifics is 'making oneself lower'; the speaker can use honorific forms and also use humble forms to make themselves lower ...

  3. Korean speech levels - Wikipedia

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    There are seven verb paradigms or speech levels in Korean, and each level has its own unique set of verb endings which are used to indicate the level of formality of a situation. Unlike honorifics – which are used to show respect towards someone mentioned in a sentence – speech levels are used to show respect towards a speaker's or writer's ...

  4. Category:Honorifics by language - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Honorifics by language" ... Korean honorifics; Krama Inggil; L.

  5. Category:Honorifics by country - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Honorifics by country" ... Korean honorifics; R.

  6. Korean grammar - Wikipedia

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    Korean pronouns 대명사 (代名詞) daemyeongsa (also called 대이름씨 dae-ireumssi) are highly influenced by the honorifics in the language. Pronouns change forms depending on the social status of the person or persons spoken to, e.g. for the first person singular pronoun "I" there are both the informal 나 na and the honorific/humble 저 ...

  7. Honorifics (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an honorific (abbreviated HON) is a grammatical or morphosyntactic form that encodes the relative social status of the participants of the conversation. . Distinct from honorific titles, linguistic honorifics convey formality FORM, social distance, politeness POL, humility HBL, deference, or respect through the choice of an alternate form such as an affix, clitic, grammatical ...

  8. Korean pronouns - Wikipedia

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    Korean pronouns pose some difficulty to speakers of English due to their complexity. The Korean language makes extensive use of speech levels and honorifics in its grammar, and Korean pronouns also change depending on the social distinction between the speaker and the person or persons spoken to.

  9. List of honorifics - Wikipedia

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    List of honorifics may refer to: English honorifics; French honorifics; Canadian honorifics; Chinese honorifics; Filipino styles and honorifics; German honorifics; Hokkien honorifics; Honorific nicknames in popular music; Indian honorifics; Indonesian honorifics; Italian honorifics; Japanese honorifics; Javanese language#Registers; Korean ...