-지

Etymology 1
Palatalized from earlier, short for. Compare 🇨🇬, which has the most conservative form of this morpheme; 🇨🇬 may also be a non-shortened form of, via 🇨🇬.

Sentence-final use appears in the eighteenth century, arising from an omission of the second fact in colloquial speech.

Suffix

 * 1) right?;
 * 1) right?;
 * 1) right?;
 * 1) right?;
 * 1) right?;
 * 1) right?;
 * 1) right?;
 * 1) right?;
 * 1) right?;
 * 1) right?;

Usage notes

 * The first fact is often given further emphatic force through the construction, as in one of the examples above.

Etymology 2
From, plausibly from  + ; compare , of similar use in long negation and incorporating the accusative marker. Apparently a Middle Korean innovation; and  were used in Old Korean long negation.

Nam Pung-hyeon notes that Middle Korean and  apparently correspond to Old Korean  and.

Usage notes
In long negation, a clause is negated with the verbs, , or. The verb or adjective of the negated clause takes the suffix, which transforms the verb or adjective into the direct subject or object of the negating verb. Therefore, the verb negated via long negation can take or. Such case markers add a more emphatic nuance to the negation.

Long negation has a more formal connotation than the adverbial negators and. Compare:



Certain terms or expressions have a strong, sometimes obligatory, preference for one negation type or another. For example, adjectives derived from are almost always negated by long negation, as are inherently negative verbs such as  and.

The adverbs negate only the verb or adjective, whereas long negation negates the entire embedded clause. While this difference is often not semantically meaningful, it can also lead to contrasting meanings, such as when the particle is involved:



In the first case, only the verb is negated. In the latter, the entire clause is negated.

For negative imperatives, long negation with is the only possibility, as no corresponding adverb exists.

Etymology 3
From, from  +.