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which is better? please explain asking to someone you used to see but fell out with, what's better to use to confirm that you can't meet with them again? 우린 다시 만날 수 없겠지? / 우린 다시 만날 수 없지? / 우린 다시 만날 수 없을지? or if all of these are unnatural / incorrect can you please suggest a way to ask "we can't meet again, right?" or "it's impossible to meet again, right?" thank you !!

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They are all similar expressions with subtle differences. 1. 우린 다시 만날 수 없겠지? => I suppose we can't meet again, can we? 2. 우린 다시 만날 수 없지? => We can never meet again, can we? 3. 우린 다시 만날 수 없을지? => Whether we can meet again... 4. 우린 다시 만날 수 없을까? => Do you think we will (not) meet again? 5. 우린 다시 만날 수 없는 거지? => Isn't it true we can never meet again? Between #1 and #2, adding 겠 makes it softer, so #2 is asking it more definitively and conclusively. #3 sounds unnatural in a conversation. It might be a fragment of a thought. #4 might be interpreted in two ways - as a pure question on the possibilities or like #1 and #2, that is, "we can't". #5 is similar to #1, using the "-는 것이지?" form. Other than #3, all sounds natural and reasonable to me.
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우린 다시 만날 수 없겠지 was my first pick! i heard the "can" form of it before as well. thanks again :)
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Now another expression comes to mind 우린 다시 만날수 없"겠"지? is also used commonly.
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thank you! i had heard the 수 있을까 ending before and tried to negate it for the 수 없다 form but seems just a bad guess on my part haha. anyway your advice is very helpful, thanks again!
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우린 다시 만날 수 없을까? is used commonly. Have fun learning Korean :)

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