127 gave you -(으)ㄹ까요? for asking. This is the answering half — and the ending that does it is one you already have.
-아요/어요 as a suggestion
The casual polite ending has two jobs:
- A statement or question about an action or state — the present tense.
- Attached to a verb root, a suggestion: “let’s…”.
Nothing in the form distinguishes them.
불고기를 먹어요. — I eat bulgogi. or — Let’s eat bulgogi.
Context decides, and in practice so does the conversation’s shape: the sentence after a 먹을까요? is a suggestion. The conjugation is unchanged from 118:
| -아요 | -어요 | -해요 |
|---|---|---|
| Stem vowel ㅏ or ㅗ | Any other | N하다 |
| 가다 → 가요 | 먹다 → 먹어요 | 일하다 → 일해요 |
| 보다 → 봐요 | 마시다 → 마셔요 | 같이 운동해요 |
This is why Korean textbooks can feel like they are teaching you fewer forms than you expect. One ending is doing three jobs — statement, question and proposal — and intonation plus context carry the rest.
하고, second meaning
하고 joined nouns into a list in 119 — 맥주하고 물. It also means with.
| Sense | Example |
|---|---|
| and | 커피하고 차(를) 주세요. — Coffee and tea, please. |
| with | 친구하고 쇼핑했어요. — I went shopping with a friend. |
같이 [가치] — “together” — is an adverb that reinforces the with reading and removes the ambiguity:
| N하고 | N하고 같이 |
|---|---|
| 누구하고 쇼핑했어요? | 누구하고 같이 쇼핑했어요? |
| Who did you shop with? | Who did you go shopping together with? |
| 친구하고 쇼핑했어요. | 친구하고 같이 쇼핑했어요. |
같이 is optional and extremely common. Adding it makes the sentence warmer as well as clearer, which is why it is in almost every suggestion in this lesson.
What you are proposing
The action — N을/를 + verb
| Noun | Verb | Phrase |
|---|---|---|
| 커피 / 차 / 술 | 마시다 | 커피(를) 마셔요 |
| 아침 / 점심 / 저녁 | 먹다 | 점심(을) 먹어요 |
| 영화 | 보다 | 영화(를) 봐요 |
| 쇼핑 | 하다 | 쇼핑해요 |
The when and where — N에/에서
| Noun | Phrase |
|---|---|
| 금요일 | 금요일에 만나요 |
| 주말 | 주말에 만나요 |
| 내일 | 내일 만나요 — no 에 |
| 오차드 | 오차드에서 만나요 |
| 회사 | 회사에서 만나요 |
| 오차드 | 오차드에 놀러 가요 |
Both particle rules at once: 에 for time and 에서 for the place of an action from 122, and 내일 refusing 에 from 125. The last row is 에 again — because 가다 is a direction verb, so its place takes 에 even though the sentence is about doing something there.
Dialogue
마크: 오늘 저녁 같이 먹을까요? Shall we have dinner together tonight?
수진: 네, 좋아요. 뭐 먹을까요? Yes, good. What shall we eat?
마크: 불고기가 어때요? How about bulgogi?
수진: 좋아요. 불고기를 먹어요. Sounds good. Let’s have bulgogi.
마크: 네. 다섯 시에 일층에서 봐요. Right. See you on the first floor at five.
The third-to-last line is the whole lesson: 불고기를 먹어요 here is “let’s”, and it is answering a 먹을까요?.
층 — floor — takes Sino-Korean numbers: 일층, 이층, 삼층. 지하 is basement (지하 일층, B1) and 지상 is ground level.
Accepting and declining
| Korean | English | |
|---|---|---|
| Accept | 네, 좋아요. | Sure, sounds good. |
| Decline | 미안해요. 약속이 있어요. | Sorry, I have plans. |
The declining line is a fixed pair and worth taking as one unit. An apology plus a reason is the expected shape — a bare 아니요 to an invitation is noticeably cold, and the reason does not have to be specific. 약속이 있어요 is sufficient and is not expected to be interrogated.
If you want to leave the door open, 그러면 다음에 어때요? — “then how about next time?” — uses the 그러면 from 129.