2022-02-25

Let’s learn about "없어?”

손이 없어? 발이 없어? : Don’t you have hands or feet?


[other expressions]

- 손이 없니? (to younger people or friends)

- 손이 없나? (to younger people or friends)

- 손이 없냐? (to younger people or friends)

- 손이 없어? (to younger people or friends)

- 손이 없는가? (to younger people or friends)

- 손이 없나요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 손이 없어요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 손이 없는가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 손이 없습니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)


- 손이 없으신가요? (more honourific by ‘-시’)

- 손이 없으세요? (more honourific by ‘-시’)

- 손이 없으십니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘-스’)


- 발이 없니? (to younger people or friends)

- 발이 없나? (to younger people or friends)

- 발이 없냐? (to younger people or friends)

- 발이 없어? (to younger people or friends)

- 발이 없는가? (to younger people or friends)

- 발이 없나요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 발이 없어요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 발이 없는가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 발이 없습니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)


- 발이 없으신가요? (more honourific by ‘-시’)

- 발이 없으세요? (more honourific by ‘-시’)

- 발이 없으십니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘-스’)


[explanations]

* 손 : hand

* 발 : foot

* -이 : a particle makes 손 /  발 the topic og the sentence after a word ends in a consonant


* 없다 : be not ; don’t exist; there is not ; there are not


*없습니까? : 없(the stem of 없다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니까?(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’)


* 없으신가요? : 없(the stem of 없다) + -으시(s suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㄴ가?(an interrogative verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific verb ending suffix)

* 없으세요? : 없(the stem of 없다) + -으시(s suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -어?(an interrogative verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific verb ending suffix)

* 없으십니까? : 없(the stem of 없다) + -으시(s suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니까?(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’)


* a verb + -니? / -나? / -냐? / -어? / -는가? : a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix

* a verb + -나? / -아? / -는가? + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix

* a verb + -으세요? / -으십니까? / -ㅂ니까? : an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix by ‘스-‘ / ‘-ㅂ’

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