my-korean1-2nd-ed

UNIT 5 이번 토요일에 뭐 하세요?
뭐 ‘what’
Asking questions such as ‘What do you like?’ or ‘What are you doing now?’
is very simple in Korean. The counterpart of ‘what’ is 뭐. But you have to
remember that in Korean the pronoun ‘you’ is usually omitted when it is
obvious who you are referring to. Therefore, we just put 좋아하세요? after
뭐 as follows:
(1) 뭐 좋아해? What do you like? (Casual)
(2) 뭐 좋아하니? What do you like? (Casual)
(3) 뭐 좋아하냐? What do you like? (Casual)
(4) 뭐 좋아해요? What do you like? (Polite)
(5) 뭐 좋아하세요? What do you like? (Honorific)
You can ask ‘What are you doing now?’ in the same way. The counterpart of
‘are doing’ in Korean is 해요. But to be polite to your classmates we’ll use
하세요.
(6) 뭐 하세요? What are you doing?
If we add 지금 (now) to the beginning of the sentence it becomes:
(7) A: 지금 뭐 하세요? What are you doing now?
B: 아무 것도 안 해요. I’m not doing anything.
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