ㄴ가요

Gentle polite question ending

Turns a statement into a question you put gently to the other person rather than firing at them. It attaches to descriptions, and to nouns as 인가요, which is what you hear in lines like 'Will you be paying by card?' and 'Is today a special early closing day?'. Several of these lines are hosts asking their viewers something, which is this ending's home turf. A plain -아요/어요 question is blunter; 아닌가요? tacked onto a claim is the ordinary way to say 'isn't it?'.

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