-거라, 너라
geora, neora
Grammar · 1 sense
Old Fashioned Command
Examples
빨리 먹거라.
Eat quickly.
천천히 놀다 가거라.
Take your time hanging out before you go.
지금 당장 교실로 가거라. 선생님이 기다리신다.
Go to your classroom immediately. Your teacher is waiting.
When you'd hear it
This is an old-fashioned, authoritative command, often heard from elders addressing children or in historical dramas. In modern speech it can sound theatrical, stern, or deliberately archaic, though it still appears in some literary or dramatic writing.
What learners get wrong
Unlike the ordinary command ending -아/어라, -거라 has an archaic or commanding tone; 오다 commonly uses 오너라 rather than 오거라.
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