-습니까

Korean Alternative forms ko -ㅂ니까 after vowels or ko ㄹ ko -습나이까 -ㅂ나이까 archaic Etymology Formed by a merger of the Middle Korean verbal suffixes -ᄉᆞᆸ〯- -sǒp- object honorific + -ᄂᆞ〮- -nó- present tense marker + -ᅌᅵᆺ- -ngìs- addressee honorific for questions + -가〮 -ká interrogative mood marker. The allomorph ko -ㅂ니까 after sonorants represents the fact that the Middle Korean object honorific -ᄉᆞᆸ〯- -sǒp- had the allomorph okm -ᅀᆞᆸ〯- -zǒp- after sonorants, which became simply ko -ㅂ- after Middle Korean /z/ was (almost) unconditionally deleted in the sixteenth century. The modern form only emerged in the nineteenth century, in the form ko -습나이까 (then written ko -ᄉᆞᆸᄂᆞ잇가 -seumnaikka).ko:국어 종결어미의 통시적 변화와 쟁점 ko:장윤희 Gugeosa yeon'gu 14 63—99 2012 A general survey of diachronic change of Korean sentence-terminating endings Pronunciation 0 Suffix suffix Interrogative suffix for sentence-final verbs in the ko 하십시오체 formal polite speech level. ko 서울-은 오늘 춥습니까? Is Seoul cold today? ko 게이브리얼 씨, 이번 주 노래-는 어땠습니까? Mr. Gabriel, how do you think about this week's song? Derived terms ko -스무니까<q:ethnic slur> Related terms ko -습니다 -읍시다 References ko inflectional suffixes