In this lesson we are going to study how to ask "Do you have ...?" or "Is there ...?" and also how to say "Give me .... please." or "I'd like to have ... please."

Do you remember how to say "I have ..." "You have ..." or "There is ..."? 있어요. [i-sseo-yo] "I have ..." "You have ..." "There is ..."

없어요. [eop-seo-yo] "I don't have ..." "You don't have ..." "There isn't ..."

Examples

사과 [sa-gwa] = apple

사과 있어요 [sa-gwa i-sseo-yo] = I have an apple.

There are apples. They have some apples. 사과 없어요 [sa-gwa eop-seo-yo] = I don't have an apple.

There is no apple.

오렌지 [o-ren-ji] = orange

오렌지 있어요 [o-ren-ji i-sseo-yo] = I have an orange. There is an orange.

오렌지 없어요 [o-ren-ji eop-seo-yo] = I don't have an orange. There is no orange.

Now, if you want to ask whether someone has something or not or whether something exsits? Simply by raising the tone at the end of the sentence, you can make it a question.

있어요? [i-sseo-yo] = Do you have ...? Is there ...?

없어요? [eop-seo-yo] = Don't you have ...? There isn't ...?

Examples

사과 있어요 [sa-gwa i-sseo-yo] = I have an apple. There are some apples.

사과 있어요? [sa-gwa i-sseo-yo] = Do you have an apple? Do you have apples?

사과 없어요? [sa-gwa i-sseo-yo] = You don't have any apple? There is no apple?

Let's take some other nouns for example.

시간 [si-gan] = time

시간 있어요? [si-gan i-sseo-yo?] = Do you have some time?

시간 없어요? [si-gan eop-seo-yo?] = You don't have time?

커피 [keo-pi] = coffee

커피 있어요? [keo-pi i-sseo-yo?] = Do you have coffee?

커피 없어요? [keo-pi eop-seo-yo?] = Don't you have coffee? You don't have coffee?

Now, after figuring whether someone has something or not, you might as well want to ask for

some of it, by saying "Please give me ..." or "I'd like to have ... please."

주세요[ju-se-yo] = Please give me

주세요 [ju-se-yo] comes from the verb 주다 [ju-da] which means "to give" so literally, 주세요 only means "please give" in the polite/formal language regardless of to whom or by whom.

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A/N:This is just a compilation. I don't own this book. Credits to them!