Question

말해 봐요, 우리 어떻게 하다가 이렇게 된 거죠? Imperatives with -아/어 보- offer the hearer to try to do something instead of giving a direct order to perform an action. Such phrases sound softer and more polite than imperatives with -(으)세요 attached directly to the verb stem.

Accepted Answer

Tell me, how did we come to this?

Front	말해 봐요, 우리 어떻게 하다가 이렇게 된 거죠?
Back	Tell me, how did we come to this?
Notes	Imperatives with -아/어 보- offer the hearer to try to do something instead of giving a direct order to perform an action. Such phrases sound softer and more polite than imperatives with -(으)세요 attached directly to the verb stem.

Imperatives 말해 봐요 우리 어떻게 하다가 이렇게 된