Special Honorific Verbs

A few common verbs do not simply add -시-. When the subject is a respected person, they change into a different word:

• 먹다, 마시다 → 드시다 (for food also 잡수시다; for drinks plain 마시세요 is fine too)
• 자다 → 주무시다
• 있다 (be somewhere) → 계시다, and 없다 → 안 계시다
• 말하다 → 말씀하시다
• 죽다 → 돌아가시다 (pass away)
• 아프다 → 편찮으시다 (be ill)

Two contrasts matter. 있다 meaning to have and 없다 meaning not to have only add -으시-: 시간 있으세요? (Do you have time?), 차가 없으세요 (She has no car). Pain in one body part keeps 아프시다: 무릎이 아프세요 (Your knee hurts). The progressive -고 있다 becomes -고 계시다: 신문을 읽고 계세요.

The endings are the usual ones: 주무셨어요, 계십니다, 드십시오.