Neighbors
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Woordenschat
- 이웃neighbor
- 층floor / story
- 소음noise
- 공동 현관shared entrance
- 재활용recycling
- 쓰레기 분리수거waste separation
- 엘리베이터elevator
- 주차 공간parking space
- 관리인building manager
- 불편함inconvenience / discomfort
Neighbors: Polite Requests with -아/어 주시겠어요?
In Korean apartment life, making polite requests to neighbors is essential. The key structure is -아/어 주시겠어요? — a highly polite way to ask someone to do something.
-아/어 주시겠어요? (Would you please...?)
- More formal and respectful than -아/어 줄 수 있어요?
- 소음을 줄여 주시겠어요? — Would you please reduce the noise?
- 문을 닫아 주시겠어요? — Would you please close the door?
Other useful polite patterns:
- -아/어도 될까요? — May I...? (asking permission)
- 여기에 주차해도 될까요? — May I park here?
- 혹시 + question — Softens the question (by any chance / if possible)
- 혹시 냄새가 나시나요? — Is there by any chance a smell?
Cultural tip: In Korea, neighbors often give small gifts (like rice cakes) when moving in. Saying 잘 부탁드립니다 (I look forward to your kind cooperation) is a standard polite phrase.
Uitdrukkingen
- 소음을 줄여 주시겠어요?Would you please reduce the noise?
- 쓰레기는 어디에 버려요?Where do I throw away the rubbish?
- 혹시 주차 공간이 있으세요?Do you happen to have a parking space?
- 잘 부탁드립니다I look forward to your kind cooperation.
- 불편을 드려서 죄송해요I am sorry for the inconvenience.
- 이웃끼리 사이좋게 지내요Let us get along well as neighbors.
Veelgemaakte fouten
이웃들이 공동 현관에 자주 만나요이웃들이 공동 현관에서 자주 만나요만나다 is an action, so the place takes 에서 (where something happens), not 에 (a destination/static location).
소음을 좀 줄여 줄래?소음을 좀 줄여 주시겠어요?줄래? is casual banmal. To a neighbor you don't know well, use the polite -아/어 주시겠어요?
혹시 주차 공간을 있으세요?혹시 주차 공간이 있으세요?있다 (to exist/have) marks the thing with 이/가, never 을/를. So it's 공간이 있으세요?
밤이 늦어서 조용히 해 주세요밤이 늦었으니까 조용히 해 주세요With a request or command, use the reason ending -(으)니까, not -아서/어서, which can't precede an order.
엘리베이터가 고장 나서 계단을 올라갔어요엘리베이터가 고장 나서 계단으로 올라갔어요계단으로 means 'up by the stairs' (the means/path). 을 would mark a direct object, which is wrong here.
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