Homonyms for -어야지

A connective ending used when the preceding statement is an essential condition for the following statement.

(informal addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to indicate the speaker's determination or will.

(informal addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to indicate that the listener or another person is supposed to do a certain thing or be in a certain state.

(informal addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to emphasize that someone or something is supposed to be in a certain situation or state, but it is not so.