2023-11-29

Let's learn about "지금은 자리가 없습니다"

지금은 자리가 없습니다 : We don’t have anything available now; There are no tables available now; Unfortunately, there are no seats available at this time; There aren’t any tables left

[other expressions]
- 지금은 자리가 없어요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 지금은 자리가 없네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 지금은 자리가 없군요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 지금은 자리가 없습니다. (formal; more honourific by ‘-스’)

[explanations]
* 지금 : now
* -은 : a time particle mean "at/on/in"

* 자리 : [=좌석] a seat; [=지정된 좌석] a place

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

* (-이/-가) 있다 : [Pronunciation: 읻따; ㅅ + ㄷ should be always pronounced as 따] (1) be; exist; there is[are] (2) have (3) [as the form of -를/을/-ㄹ 수 있다] be able to do 
* (-이/-가) 없다 : [Pronunciation: 업따; ㅅ + ㄷ should be always pronounced as 따] (1) be not ; noe exist; there is[are] not (2) don't have (3) [as the form of -를/을/-ㄹ 수 없다] be unable to do

* 없습니다 : 없(the stem of 없다) +  -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -어 / -네 / - 다 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -군! / -구나! : a non-honourific exclamatory verb ending suffix
* a verb + -어 / -네 / -군! + -요 : honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb + -습니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix

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