LEARN KOREAN (한국어) [GRAMMAR] #1

HOW TO SAY "YOU"

I know this sounds weird but the word 'you' is not said very often in Korean. Korean people get around saying the word 'you' through a number of ways:

1. Most of the time you use somebody's (usually job) position when referring to them or talking about them. For example, boss (부장님), principal (교장선생님), vice principal (교감선생님), Mr. Name (for a teacher) (Name 선생님), customer (고객님), guest (손님), 화장님/사장님 (president/CEO of a company).
2. It is very common in Korean to refer to people that you are close with as your own family member. For example, 오빠 means "older brother" (when you are a woman). But even if somebody is not your older brother, you can call him 오빠 if you are close to him.
3. You can usually call any woman or man that looks very old "grandmother" and "grandfather" (할머니/할아버지). But other than that, you don't really call somebody part of your family unless you are close with that person.
4. You can generally call any strange man or woman that you don't know 아저씨 (man) and 아주머니 (woman).
5. In informal situations, you can use the word 너. 는 and 를 can attach to 너 when "you" is the subject or object of a sentence, respectively. If 가 is added to 너, it changes to 네가. In order to distinguish the pronunciation of 네가 and 내가 from each other (which, technically should be pronounced the same), 네가 is pronounced as "knee-ga."
6. You can also use the word 당신 which means "you." You may use this word when talking to anybody, but Korean people hardly ever use it. Most people that say 당신 are foreigners and only do so because they are so used to saying "you" in a sentence.