어요

eoyo

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Also spelled oyo

Everyday polite sentence ending

The ordinary polite way to end a sentence, and the one most spoken Korean runs on — talking to a viewer, a customer, a coworker, anyone you are being courteous to without standing on ceremony. It covers statements, questions, and requests unchanged; only intonation separates them. Formal announcements swap it for ㅂ니다/습니다, which sounds like a news anchor, and stripping it down to bare 어 makes the same sentence casual speech between close friends.

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