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1. (아주낮춤으로)(옛 말투로) 현재의 사실에 대해 점잖게 묻거나 꾸짖어 묻는 뜻을 나타내는 종결 어미.

1. -N-GO: (formal, highly addressee-lowering)(old-fashioned) A sentence-final ending used to politely ask about or criticize a fact of the present.

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자네 집에 형제는 몇인고?
How many brothers do you have in your house?
잘못한 주제에 어찌 그리 뻔뻔한고?
How can you be so brazen when you're wrong?
어찌 젊은이가 늙은이보다 걸음이 더딘고?
How could a young man walk slower than an old man?
괴이하게 생긴 이것은 무엇에 쓰는 물건인고?
What's this weird-looking thing for?
그래, 어린 것이 먼 데서 여기까지 오다니 무슨 일인고?
Yeah, what's wrong with a young man coming all the way here from a distance?
♔ 처자는 허리가 어쩌면 이리 가는고?
How does a wife's back go this way?
♕ 아니에요. 저도 살이 많이 쪘어요.
No. i gained a lot of weight, too.

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2. (아주낮춤으로)(옛 말투로) 자기 자신에게 묻는 물음이나 추측을 나타내는 종결 어미.

2. -N-GO: (formal, highly addressee-lowering)(old-fashioned) A sentence-final ending used to ask oneself something or guess about something.

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경들은 왜 이리 아둔한고?
Why are the cops so stupid?
대체 이런 난리가 언제 끝날 건고.
When the hell is this mess gonna end?
시국을 잘못 만나 우리 모두 무슨 고생인고.
We're all in trouble.
부모를 극진히 공양하는 일이 얼마나 훌륭한고!
How wonderful it is to honor your parents with all their heart!
아무도 책임을 지지 않으니 도대체 누구의 잘못인고.
No one is responsible, so whose fault is it?
♔ 나라가 이렇게 어려운데 백성들은 또 어찌 구할 것인고.
How can the people be saved when the country is so difficult?
♕ 전하, 성은이 망극하옵니다.
Your grace, the holy spirit is at its end.

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📚 Annotation: 주로 구어에서, ‘이다’, 받침이 없거나 ‘ㄹ’ 받침인 형용사 또는 ‘-으시-’ 뒤에 붙여 쓴다.

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