2022-08-30

Let's learn about "잠깐 시간 돼?"

잠깐 시간 돼? : Got a moment / Do you have time a little?

ex) 잠깐 시간 돼? 할 얘기가 있는데... : Do you have time? I need to talk to you...

[other expressions]
- 잠깐 시간 되니? (to younger people or friends)
- 잠깐 시간 되나? (to younger people or friends)
- 잠깐 시간 되냐? (to younger people or friends)
- 잠깐 시간 돼? (to younger people or friends)
- 잠깐 시간 될까? (to younger people or friends)
- 잠깐 시간 되는가? (to younger people or friends)
- 잠깐 시간 되나요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 잠깐 시간 돼요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 잠깐 시간 될까요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 잠깐 시간 되는가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 잠깐 시간 됩니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘-시’)
- 잠깐 시간 되겠습니까? (more honourific by ‘-시’)

[explanations]
* 잠깐 : (for) a little while; (for) a moment [minute]; (for) some time

* 시간 : time
* -이 : a particle makes 시간 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a consonant: this omitted

* 되다 : (1) become (2) can; be able to do (3) can have; can get in the sentence

* 돼? : 되(the stem of 되다) + -어(a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)
* 될까? : 되(the stem of 되다) + -ㄹ(a suffix makes a verb future tense) + -까(a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)
* 됩니까 : 되(the stem of 되다) + -ㅂ시오(an  honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)
* 되겠습니까? : 되(the stem of 되다) + -겠(a suffix asks the listener's will)+ -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니까(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’)

* a verb + -니? / -나? / -냐? / -는가? / -어? / -ㄹ까? : a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix
* a verb +  -나? / -는가? / -어? / -ㄹ까? + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb + -ㅂ니까? / -겠습니까? : an honourific interrgative verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ-‘ / ‘스’

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