Honorific vs non-honorific

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Hello! I will be visiting Korea this summer, and to make my learning a little easier, I figured I would focus on Standard politeness level when studying verbs. But I just realized all three forms can either be honorific or non-honorific!! What is the difference? If you use honorific with Polite form it's super, super polite? And when would you use honorific with Initimate? That seems a little contradictory - to me at least

But if I'm focusing on Standard, and I want to make my learning as easy as possible (I will only be in Korea for ten days and I don't need to be fluent), should study Standard, honorific?

Thanks! Geoff

[korea.innovative]

Hey Geoff,



Congratulations!! You must be very excited!:D

There are so many fun events going on during summer in Korea, especially Seoul, and you will enjoy so much!

There are three kinds that you are well aware of which would be - intimate, polite standard, honorific.

Intimat would finish like -하다, -이다, -야 and so on, polite standard -요, honorific -합니다, 입니다.

Basically you are right that with polite standard, you will have no problem offending anyone!haha



Thank you

Madison
team KoreanClass101