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Asking how much something costs

얼마인지 묻기·Prepared table·Reviewed by a person

In shops you speak to staff in 해요체, whoever they are. Here you compare different ways of saying it to the same person.

Shop staff · server

해요체

얼마예요?

Most common

Other ways to say it

  • 얼마죠?

    Short, as if confirming

    • Ending예요→죠

  • 저기요, 얼마예요?

    Calling the clerk over to ask

    • Title added저기요,

  • 얼마인가요?

    A bit more formal

    • Ending예요→인가요

  • 얼마 나왔어요?

    Asking the total at the register

    • Softened얼마예요?→나왔어요?
Changes are measured against the first form.Word swappedSubject honorific -시-ParticleTitle addedSoftenedEndingnot in the dictionary

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