어라

eora

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Also spelled ora

blunt command: do it!

The plainest way to order someone around — used with close friends, juniors and children, or shouted at a screen: 골문을 열어라! 'open up the goal!', 잘해라 'do a good job', 길을 비켜라 'get out of the way'. It is also the standard shape for mission titles and slogans: 최저가 주유소를 찾아라 'find the cheapest gas station'. Far too blunt for anyone you'd use polite speech with — 하세요 or 해 주세요 are the safe forms. After a bright vowel it is 아라.

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