See -요 on Wiktionary
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"이다"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of"
]
}
],
"word": "-요"
}
{
"categories": [
"Korean entries with incorrect language header",
"Korean lemmas",
"Korean suffixes",
"Korean terms with redundant script codes",
"Korean terms with redundant transliterations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": "3",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-yo",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "suffix"
},
"expansion": "-요 • (-yo)",
"name": "ko-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Korean",
"lang_code": "ko",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Korean terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_roman_offsets": [
[
20,
22
],
[
34,
36
]
],
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
8,
9
],
[
13,
14
]
],
"english": "He was my friend, teacher, and companion.",
"roman": "Geuneun naui chin'guyo seonsaeng'iyo dongbanjayeotda.",
"text": "그는 나의 친구요 선생이요 동반자였다.",
"translation": "He was my friend, teacher, and companion.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A suffix used only after a copula, enumerating objects or facts"
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-요"
}
{
"categories": [
"Korean entries with incorrect language header",
"Korean lemmas",
"Korean suffixes",
"Korean terms with redundant script codes",
"Korean terms with redundant transliterations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": "4",
"etymology_text": "See -소 (-so). The semivowel is introduced to break hiatus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-yo",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "-요 • (-yo)",
"name": "ko-suffix"
}
],
"lang": "Korean",
"lang_code": "ko",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "(-o, post-vowel allomorph of -소 (-so, semi-formal style sentence-final suffix))",
"word": "-오"
}
],
"categories": [
"Gyeongsang Korean",
"Jeolla Korean"
],
"glosses": [
"Gyeongsang and Jeolla dialect form of -오 (-o, post-vowel allomorph of -소 (-so, semi-formal style sentence-final suffix))"
],
"links": [
[
"-오",
"-오#Korean"
],
[
"allomorph",
"allomorph"
],
[
"-소",
"-소#Korean"
]
],
"tags": [
"Gyeongsang",
"Jeolla",
"alt-of",
"dialectal",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-요"
}
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