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๐ŸŒฟ The meaning of ’You’

teacher.abby 2020. 7. 2. 05:55

You mean everything. :-)

Basically, it signifies a listener, but It has 5 different meanings below.

 

1. 'You' is a pronoun that indicates a listener. But normally we don't use it for someone who is older than you, because of 4.

๐Ÿ˜Š ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? / ๋‹น์‹  ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์•ผ? Who are you?

2. Between the married couple, 'You' is an honorific way to call each other(husband/wife).

๐Ÿ˜Š ์—ฌ๋ณด, ๋‹น์‹  ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ญ ํ•ด? Honey, What are you doing now?
(์—ฌ๋ณด is a pronoun to call husband/wife between marriage couple.)

3. When you're writing, 'You' is a pronoun that calls readers(of the public) with honorific way. You've been read this way in the book titles, magazines or posters.

๐Ÿ˜Š ์™ธ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹น์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ To you studying a foreign language

4. When you're argument or quarrel with someone, ’You’ is the dis-honorific way to call the opponent.

๐Ÿ˜Š ๋ญ? ๋‹น์‹ ? ๋„ˆ ๋ช‡ ์‚ด์ด์•ผ? What? YOU? How old are you?

5. 'You is a very honorific way to call him/herself. We us it instead of '์ž๊ธฐ(him/herself)'.

๐Ÿ˜Š ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ป˜์„œ๋Š” ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ์ œ์ผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ท์„ ์ž…์œผ์…จ๋‹ค. The mother wore her favourite dress.

Guess what he is saying?

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