연세

yeonse · [연세]

age

nounBeginner

Meanings

  1. age(honorific) One's age.

Written Forms

연세Hangul
年歲Hanja

Examples from Lessons (3)

Elderly members should be shown to their seats with even greater care and devotion.

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Even elderly regular customers spend their afternoons here, sipping warm tea.

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You appear polite only when you use honorifics with everyone, from people you meet for the first time to those who are older than you.

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Grammar in These Examples

Korean definitions, pronunciations and learner levels are from the Basic Korean Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

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