exceptionally-jjang:

won-bora:

네, 알아요! So ~세요 is the command idk what that is in korean. i know it’s mandatos in spanish or something, but I think in korean people say the imperative mood. Yep so this is the polite imperative mood which means you use it when “commanding” someone to do something. Some people translate it to mean please.

먹으세요! Please eat!

물주세요! Pleast give me some water! 

etc.

When conjugating normally its just for normal sentences idk

먹어요 I/he/she/it/you drinks or let’s drink depending on the context

I hope this helped! Sorry for the late reply~so many things these days

(pssst… thank you btw <3)

sigh back to searching up beautiful celebrities and crying… ugh sonequa martin-green… sigh

oh yeah. normal conjugation can be imperative too, but it’s just less formal 🙂

Hi I’m really sorry for intruding on your post but I just wanted to add some stuff to this. 

So 하세요 is actually the conjugation of 하시다 which is 하다 with the honorific 시 added to it. You use the honorific form of verbs for extra formality like when talking to/about an elder or strangers etc. (There’s a talk to me in korean lesson on 시 here).

For some examples of conjugation:

하다, 하시다 = to do 
오늘 뭐해? (informal)
오늘 뭐해요? (formal)
오늘 뭐하세요? (formal honorific) 

이다, 이시다 = to be
학생이야? (informal)
학생이에요? (formal)
학생이세요? (formal honorific) 

It can be used any time to add respect such as, like you said, for imperatives in formal speech (공부하세요), talking to strangers (어디 사세요? (살다 -> 사시다)) when talking to/about elders (할머니 하셨어요) or thanking someone in formal speech (도와 주셔서 감사합니다 (주다 -> 주시다)).