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The correct way of saying what are you doing in Korean is...?
When I try to look this up, I literally get 9 versions excluding the super-formal Google Translate version.
무었을하시고계심니까?
뭐해?
뭐하세요?
너는 무 엇을 하고있니?
뭐하고있어요?
지금 뭐해요?
ㅈ금 뭐 하니?
이제뭐해?
오늘 뭐해요?
I understand some of these are just varying versions of formality, but I don't understand where all the different phrases come from or in what situation to use them since they seem to have different meanings.
Mar 3, 2014 6:51 AM
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They are variants of the interrogative of "무엇을 하고 있다" according to the different speech levels in Korean.
The base sentence: 무엇을 하고 있다.
합쇼체: 무엇을 하고 계십니까? (계시다 is hororific form of the word 있다)
하오체: 무엇을 하고 있소?
하게체: 무엇을 하고 있는가?
해요체: 무엇을 하고 있어요?
해체: 무엇을 하고 있니?
해라체: 무엇을 하고 있느냐?
And the word 뭐 is contraction of the noun 무엇.
Base form: 뭐를 하다. or 뭘 하다. (뭘 is contraction of 뭐를 or 무엇을)
Here, the objective case particle 를/을 can be leave out in conversation.
합쇼체: 뭐(를) 하십니까?
하오체: 뭐(를) 하오?
하게체: 뭐(를) 하나?
해요체: 뭐(를) 해요?
해체: 뭐 하니? or 뭐 해?
해라체: 뭐 하느냐?
해요체 + honorific ending "시" : 뭐 하세요? (뭐 하시어요?)
너는 무엇을 하고 있니?
뭐 하고 있어요?
지금 뭐 해요?
ㅈ금 뭐 하니?
이제 뭐 해?
오늘 뭐 해요?
March 3, 2014
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