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Asking to pay the bill

계산해 달라고 하기·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

계산해 주세요.

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Other ways to say it

  • 계산이요.

    Short, while holding out a card or cash at the counter

    • Ending해 주세요→이요
  • 계산할게요.

    Announcing that you’ll pay

    • Ending해 주세요→할게요
  • 여기요, 계산할게요.

    Calling the server over from the table

    • Title added여기요,
    • Ending해 주세요→할게요
  • 계산해 주시겠어요?

    More polite, an indirect way of asking

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

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