-게나
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Grammar · 1 sense
하게체 Command
Examples
어서 오게나.
Come on in.
혼자만 알고 있게나.
Let this be a secret between us.
수건 좀 가져다주게나.
Could you bring me a towel?
When you'd hear it
-게나 belongs to 하게체 and is mainly heard from older speakers addressing someone junior or familiar. It often appears in dramas, novels, and deliberately old-fashioned speech, and is uncommon in ordinary modern conversation.
What learners get wrong
It is not a standard polite request like 주세요 or -아/어 주세요. Compared with plain -게, -게나 can sound more old-fashioned and gently insistent, so it is usually a character-specific or literary choice.
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