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-리

Part of speech
ending of a word
Vocabulary level
none
Homonyms
2

-ri

(formal, highly addressee-lowering)(old-fashioned) A sentence-final ending used to mean that what is being said is a guess.

-ri

(formal, highly addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to express the speaker's intention of doing something or ask about the listener's intention.

-ri

(formal, highly addressee-lowering) A sentence-final ending used to ask again because common sense suggests that something cannot happen.