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게
Jeju
Etymology 1
Suffix
jje suffix
A propositive verb-final suffix in the "intimate" jje ᄒᆞ여체 speech level used between friends, by superiors to inferiors, etc.
jje 먹-게! Let's eat!
jje 가ᇝ-이게! Let's get going!
jje ko:안사인<qq:reciting priest> "짐-치-원님-아, 짐-치-원님-아, 강님이 ᄒᆞᄁᆞᆷ만 빌립서. 저승 강 부리당 보내리다.""아니 됍네다.""계건 옵서. 우리 반착썩 갈라-앗게몸천-을 앗으쿠가? 혼정-을 앗으쿠가?" (Yama said,) "Magistrate Kim Chi, Magistrate Kim Chi, allow me to borrow Gangnim for a while. I will go to the world of the dead, make him do work, and then send him back.""No.""Then let's split him in halfWill you take his body? Or will you take his soul?" Chasa bon-puri ko:제주도 무가 Shamanic songs of Jeju Island Korea University Press 1996 c. 1980 ko:한국고전문학전집<t:Anthology of Classical Korean Literature> Jim Chi wonnim-a, Jim Chi wonnim-a, Gangnimi hawkkawm-man billipseo. Jeoseung gang buridang bonaerida.""Ani dwaemneda.""Gyegeon opseo. Uri banchaksseok galla-atgeMomcheon-eul aseukuga? Honjeong-eul aseukuga?"
jje jje:개정 증보 제주어 사전 9788996257257 2009 jje:제주 특별 자치도 55 jje:제주 문화 예술 재단 김 아무개 이번-도 오-라-그네 장원ᄒᆞ-거들랑 우리-가 멀리 어디 조곰 숨-엇-다 그놈 심-어 놔-서 죽여-불게. If Kim comes and wins again this time, let's hide far away and catch and kill him.
jje 2020 Changyong Yang; Sejung Yang; William O'Grady (professor) William O'Grady 9780824874438 University of Hawai‘i Press 206 Jejueo: the language of Korea’s Jeju Island Honolulu, USA https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr2qt j.ctvwvr2qt ᄉᆞ답ᄒᆞ-게! Let’s do the laundry!
jje 2020 Changyong Yang; Sejung Yang; William O'Grady (professor) William O'Grady 9780824874438 University of Hawai‘i Press 206 Jejueo: the language of Korea’s Jeju Island Honolulu, USA https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr2qt j.ctvwvr2qt 먹-엇(-이)게! Let’s get finished eating!
Usage notes
This ending can also be added to the endings jje -엇 and jje -어ᇝ and their allomorphs, in which they give a meaning of "Let's get finished..." and "Let's start/get ...ing", respectively. 2020 Changyong Yang Sejung Yang William O'Grady (professor) William O'Grady 9780824874438 University of Hawai‘i Press 205-206 Jejueo: the language of Korea’s Jeju Island Honolulu, USA https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr2qt j.ctvwvr2qt
Alternative forms
jje -으게 sometimes used after stems that end in consonants, excluding jje 먹다 먹- in jje 먹다 to eat
jje -이게 sometimes used after stems that end in jje ㅅ, jje ㅈ, or jje ㅊ
jje -우게 sometimes used after stems that end in the labial consonants jje ㅂ or jje ㅁ
Etymology 2
Suffix
jje suffix -ge
An evidential verb-final suffix in the "intimate" jje ᄒᆞ여체 speech level that marks an event of which the speaker has knowledge, either from inference or observation. Only used with the jje -언 and jje -은 suffixes and their allomorphs. 2020 Changyong Yang Sejung Yang William O'Grady (professor) William O'Grady 9780824874438 University of Hawai‘i Press 187-190 Jejueo: the language of Korea’s Jeju Island Honolulu, USA https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr2qt j.ctvwvr2qt
jje 2020 Changyong Yang; Sejung Yang; William O'Grady (professor) William O'Grady 9780824874438 University of Hawai‘i Press 187 Jejueo: the language of Korea’s Jeju Island Honolulu, USA https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr2qt j.ctvwvr2qt 그 초기 사름-덜 타-는게. (I know from experience that) people pick that mushroom.
jje 2020 Changyong Yang; Sejung Yang; William O'Grady (professor) William O'Grady 9780824874438 University of Hawai‘i Press 187 Jejueo: the language of Korea’s Jeju Island Honolulu, USA https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr2qt j.ctvwvr2qt 이 물웨-덜-은 막 궃-인게. (I see that) these cucumbers are very bad (in quality).
jje 2020 Changyong Yang; Sejung Yang; William O'Grady (professor) William O'Grady 9780824874438 University of Hawai‘i Press 188 Jejueo: the language of Korea’s Jeju Island Honolulu, USA https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr2qt j.ctvwvr2qt 자의 ^영수-어멍 숭털-어ᇝ-인게. (I see) him/her imitating Yeongsu’s mother.
jje 2020 Changyong Yang; Sejung Yang; William O'Grady (professor) William O'Grady 9780824874438 University of Hawai‘i Press 188 Jejueo: the language of Korea’s Jeju Island Honolulu, USA https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr2qt j.ctvwvr2qt ᄄᆞᆯ-이 ᄎᆞᆽ-이큰게. (I can see that) your daughter may/will look for you.
jje 2020 Changyong Yang; Sejung Yang; William O'Grady (professor) William O'Grady 9780824874438 University of Hawai‘i Press 188 Jejueo: the language of Korea’s Jeju Island Honolulu, USA https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr2qt j.ctvwvr2qt 느-네 ᄉᆞᆫ지 파치 잘 줏-언게. (I saw) your grandchild pick fallen tangerines well.
jje 2020 Changyong Yang; Sejung Yang; William O'Grady (professor) William O'Grady 9780824874438 University of Hawai‘i Press 189 Jejueo: the language of Korea’s Jeju Island Honolulu, USA https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr2qt j.ctvwvr2qt 아방 ᄀᆞ세 ᄎᆞᆽ-앗-인게. (I see that) father found the scissors.
jje 2020 Changyong Yang; Sejung Yang; William O'Grady (professor) William O'Grady 9780824874438 University of Hawai‘i Press 189 Jejueo : the language of Korea’s Jeju Island Honolulu, USA https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr2qt j.ctvwvr2qt 어멍-이 소낭 그챠-불-엇-언게. (I figured) that mother had cut the pine tree completely down.
Derived terms
jje -ㄴ게 -는게 -언게 -은게 -인게
References
Korean
Etymology 1
From ko okm - -게〮 -kéy. Old Korean has adverb-deriving ko 去 *-ke, although uncommon.ko:고대국어의 파생 접미사 연구 A study of derivational suffixes in Old Korean ko:장윤희 2006 Gugeohak 47 91—144 In Middle Korean, it coexisted with -이 -i and -오 -wo, but it has since displaced both to become by far the most productive adverbial suffix in Korean.
Suffix
-ly; a suffix attached to the stems of verbs and adjectives to derive adverbs.
ko 슬프-게 울다 to weep sadly
ko 행복-하-게 살고 있다. He is living happily.
ko 하늘-이 붉-게 물-들-었--다. The sky was colored red.
so that
ko 물 마시-게 컵 좀. A cup please, so I can have water.
ko 몸-에 꼭 맞-게 맞춘 옷-이 배달되어 왔다. The clothes which were made to fit him perfectly were delivered.
Usage notes
common constructions
ko -게 하다 derives causatives:
ko 동생-이 밥-을 먹게 하다 to make one's younger brother eat
ko 슬프게 하다 to make [someone] sad
ko -게 되다 approximately means "to end up", with a nuance of being involuntary:
ko 코로나-로 인해 대학-을 못 가게 되다 to end up unable to go to university because of Covid-19
Derived terms
ko -겠- -게끔
Etymology 2
sentence-final
First attested in the nineteenth century. Formally the same suffix as Etymology 1. It stems from a practice in which the mood-marking main verb was left implicit in colloquial conversation, causing the originally adverbialized stem to develop into the main stem of the clause.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 endingsko:19세기 말~20세기 초 한국어에 나타난 종결어미화 연구 A study of the development of sentence-final suffixes in Korean in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ko:이소은 2016 University of Seoul (PhD)
Suffix
In the intimate style:
are you going to...; used to ask about the addressee's intentions, often with a nuance of slight surprise.
ko 뭐 하-게? What are you going to do?
ko 지금 가-게? 너무 이르지 않아? Are you going to leave right now? Isn't it too early?
Used sarcastically to deny the possibility of something being true by positing an equally absurd situation.
ko 말-만 하-면 다 되-게? Do you think you can solve every problem just by talking? If you just spoke, would everything be done?
ko 네-가 검사-면 난 판사-게? If you're a prosecutor, then I'm a judge!
Used to invite someone to guess.
ko 누구-게? Guess who?
In the familiar style, the principal imperative suffix.
ko 말-하-게. 그날 자네-는 뭘 하고 있었나? Please tell me. What were you doing that day?
Etymology 3
From ko okm - -개 -kay.
Suffix
ko -개 [agentive suffix]
Derived terms
ko
Etymology 4
Particle
particle
ko literary ko -에게 to
Usage notes
Used only for pronouns.
In contemporary language, used only in ko 내게 내-게 to me, ko 제게 제-게 to me humble, ko 네게 네-게 to you.
References
ko inflectional suffixes