Usage

For indirect quote:

Sentence type	Word type	Form
Suggestive	Action verb	자고

Shortened form

For indirect quote:

Sentence type	Word type	Full form	Shortened form
Suggestive	Action verb	자고 해요	재요

Korean Grammar in Use

An indirect quotation refers to the citing, without the use of quotation marks, of what someone suggested. After changing the form of the content to be quoted, -자고 is attached and used along with a verb such as 말하다 (to speak, to say), 전하다 (to tell, to convey) or 듣다 (to listen, to hear). These verbs can be substituted with 하다 or 그러다.

Details

1. Suggestive Sentences

민우 씨는 "내일 산에 가지 맙시다."라고 말했어요.

Minu said, "Let's not go to the mountain tomorrow."

2. Imperative Sentences

의사 선생님이 "담배를 피우지 마세요."라고 하셨어요.

The doctor said, "Don't smoke."

When the first person pronoun 나/내 or 저/제 appears inside an indirect quotation, it changes to 자기.

왕징 씨가 "저한테 얘기하세요."라고 말했어요.

Wang Jing said, "Please tell me."

리처드 씨가 "제 고향은 뉴욕이에요."라고 말했이요.

Richard said, "My hometown is New York."

When indirect quotations are made from sentences that originally end in 주세요 or -아/어 주세요, these parts change to 달라고 하다 and -아/어 달라고 하다 or 주라고 하다 and -아/어 주라고 하다, respectively. Specifically, when the speaker is making the request directly to the listener, then 달라고 하다 and -아/어 달라고 하다 are used, but when the speaker is asking the listener to help a third party, then 주라고 하다 and -아/어 주라고 하다 are used.