Example Sentences#

1. 그럼 모두 만족이겠지?¹
   Then everyone will be satisfied, right?

   • 만족 means ‘satisfaction’.
   • 이다 is the copula ‘to be’.
   • -겠- indicates future action, supposition, or conjecture from the speaker’s perspective, often based on their current observation or subjective feeling.
   • -지 is a sentence-ending particle that conveys the speaker’s presumption of shared understanding or agreement with the listener. In the interrogative mood, it seeks confirmation, softening the question’s tone and making it less direct.

2. 앨리스: “여기서 어느 쪽으로 가야 할지 말씀해 주시겠어요?”²
   Alice: “Would you please tell me which way I should go from here?”

   • 주다 means ‘to give’.
   • -여 주다 is a grammar pattern where 주다 is used as an auxiliary verb to indicate that the action is done for someone else’s benefit.
   • -시- is an honorific marker used to show respect toward the subject of the verb, typically when referring to or addressing someone of higher social standing, or when politely addressing the listener in requests, questions, or commands.
   • -겠 is a suffix indicating an indirect polite proposal with some degree of future supposition.
   • 어요 is a polite ending used in informal polite speech.

3. 그것은 숲의 오래된 영혼의 목소리였고, 타로에게 원하는 무엇이든 변할 수 있는 힘을 주겠다고 했습니다.³
   It was the voice of an old spirit of the forest, promising Taro the power to change anything he wanted.

   • 주다 means ‘to give’.
   • -겠- is a future tense marker indicating intention, expressing the speaker’s will or determination to perform the action.
   • -다고 is a quotative marker used in indirect quotation of speech or thoughts, composed of -다 (the plain declarative ending) and -고 (a quotative particle).