As we all know, there is polite and formal way of speaking in Korean. This week I planned to learn how to make requests more polite. The polite honorific -seyo can be used to make requests more polite, -seyo is used when the verb stem ends in in a vowel, and -useyo is used when the verb stem ends in a consonant. For example:
mashi- becomes mashiseyo
ha- becomes haseyo
kidari- becomes kidariseyo
iss- becomes issuseyo
anj- becomes anjusey
If I want to request someone to wait for me, I would say kidariseyo, which means "please wait".
The use of -seyo means that I have a special respect for the person, for example if I say hansongsaengnim-i hakkyo-e kaseyo , I am saying Mr Guo is going to school. ( But you are also showing special respect for him ).
It is very interesting to learn the use of -seyo. I will try to add this word into the sentences I learned past in order to make them more polite.
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