-(으)라니(요)

Repeats an order or request you have just received and reacts to it with surprise, disbelief or indignation: 'You're telling me to …?!'. The polite form -(으)라니요 often talks back to the person who gave the order.

인용·전달Quoting & reporting

Han: Stems ending in ㄹ take 라니 directly, without 으: 만들라니, 살라니.

Examples

가: 내일까지 보고서를 다시 써 오세요. 나: 내일까지 다시 쓰라니요? 시간이 너무 부족해요.A: Rewrite the report by tomorrow. B: Rewrite it by tomorrow? That's not nearly enough time.

처음 보는 사람이 돈을 빌려 달라니 정말 황당했다.A total stranger asking me to lend him money: it was absurd.

아픈 사람한테 야근을 하라니, 너무하는 거 아니에요?Telling a sick person to work overtime: isn't that going too far?

Don’t mix up

-(으)라니(요)vs-(느)ㄴ다니-(느)ㄴ다니 reacts to news (a statement); -(으)라니 to an order: 회사를 그만둔다니! (You're quitting?!) vs 회사를 그만두라니! (You want me to quit?!)

-(으)라니(요)vs-(으)라니까-(으)라니까 repeats your own order with insistence; -(으)라니 reacts to someone else's: 빨리 오라니까! (I told you to come!) vs 지금 당장 오라니! (Come right now?!)

How to build it

V+(으)라니(요)

주다 for the speaker → 달라니

negative: V+지 말라니

가다 → 가라니; 먹다 → 먹으라니; 만들다 → 만들라니; 돕다 → 도우라니; 빌려주다 → 빌려 달라니; 하지 말다 → 하지 말라니

It is a shortening of the quoted command -(으)라고 하다니: after it comes the speaker's reaction (말이 돼?, 너무하다, 황당하다) or nothing but '!' or '?'.
ㄹ-stems add 라니 without 으 (만들라니); ㅂ-irregulars change ㅂ to 우 (도우라니). With 주다 use 달라니 when the request is for the asker, 주라니 when it is for a third person.
Echoing someone's words with -(으)라니요? is polite in form but a strong protest: 지금 그만두라니요?
The same reaction works for other quoted speech: statements -(느)ㄴ다니, nouns -(이)라니 (see -(느)ㄴ다니), suggestions -자니, questions -(느)냐니: 이 밤에 산에 가자니!

Classic mistake

Wrong: ~~주말까지 이걸 다 만들으라니요?~~

Right: 주말까지 이걸 다 만들라니요?

Stems ending in ㄹ take 라니 directly, without 으: 만들라니, 살라니.

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