Let's learn about "자리 있어요?"

자리 있어요? : Is this seat taken?

[other expressions]

- 자리 있나요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 자리 있어요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 자리 있는가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 자리 있습니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)

[explanations]

* 여기 : here; this omitted

* 이 : this; omitted

* 자리 : seat

* -가 : a particle makes 자리 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a vowel; this omitted

* 있다 : (1) be; exist; there is[are] (2) have (3) be taken in the sentence

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

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

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

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