" 할머님 께서 진지 를 드세요 . " 
 Translation : Grandmother eats rice . 
 why is everything in this chapter about grandmas and rice tho 
 This chapter is titled ' Honorific '. In East Asia , we conventionally respect our great - grandparents ( if possible ) and grandparents . In a family , grandparents are somewhat like bosses . That is our traditional order in families . In more conservational families , grandparents are not only respected as a boss , but also obeyed as a boss . 
 That is why we learn another word for ' rice ', another word for ' eat ', and so on . 
 Please check the ' tips and notes ' part for more information . 
 Sir are you a Korean older gentleman ? Because it would be really exciting to meet such someone . 
 What is the purpose of 께서 ? Is that a polite form ? 
 께서 is the formal subject marker , so use that instead of 이 / 가 when you need to talk to someone formally . 
 So in this case it ' s the same whether or not it follows a vowel sound ? 
 Correct , 께 서 is used regardless of the final consonant 
 Yes super polite form 
 My korean teacher said 진지 is only used for meal . Even if it can means both , I understand that it is not commonly used for rice . Eitherway , duolingo should acept meal as a right answer . 
 It ' s super common in Asian languages for one of the words for rice to also mean meal , so I was wondering the same thing . 
 Isn ' t 진지 the polite expression for meal ? 
 I think its the same as 밥 . It specifically means rice , but can also mean meal . 
 진지 is for the meal . 밥 can mean both rice and meal but the meaning of 진지 is meal . 
 These are a few results from the first 10 if you search on Google 
 밥 and 진지 have the exact same meaning ( rice , food , meal , etc . ) , except 진지 is used for someone who needs a higher level of respect . If you really want to specify the English word for " meal , " you can use 식사 . 
 It is NOT exactly same 밥 could be meaning rice , but 진지 cant 
 Seungji _ Han 
 Grandmother eats . 
 my wife says " 진지 를 드세요 " is polite for " eat a meal " 
 When it says 할머님 깨 서 doesn ' t that mean ' Do it for grandma ' 
 If you wanted to say " Do it for grandma , " one way to say it is 할머니 위해서 해 주 세요 
 AdrianJurd 
 Grandmother eats works too ? Does that mean that 진지 를 means meal or something similar ? 
 in some questions " 진지 " is meal , i type meal . .. expects rice as the answer - hooo boy - lol i guess i get this question every 3 months