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Old-fashioned formal command or statement

An archaic ending that sounds like a proclamation or a line from a folk tale: look at the bottom of my bag, listen carefully to the next song title, please make sure you're not a target, aren't these chopsticks mismatched? It survives in written instructions, quiz captions and period-drama dialogue rather than in conversation. Several of these lines are on-screen captions using it for a deliberately stiff, formal joke. Modern speech would use 세요 or 십시오 for the commands.

Register: archaic, formal, often for effect

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