Let's learn about "지름길 없어요?"

지름길 없어요? : Is there a shortcut?; Isn’t there a faster way to get there?; There must be a faster way.

[other expressions]

<반말(talking down to)>

- 지름길은 없니? (to younger people or friends)

- 지름길은 없나? (to younger people or friends)

- 지름길은 없냐? (to younger people or friends)

- 지름길은 없어? (to younger people or friends)

- 지름길은 없는가? (to younger people or friends)

- 지름길은 없는지? (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>

- 지름길은 없나요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 지름길은 없어요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 지름길은 없는가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 지름길은 없는지요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>

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

- 지름길은 없으신가요? (more honourific by ‘-시’)

- 지름길은 없으신지요? (more honourific by ‘-시’)

- 지름길은 없으세요? (more honourific by ‘-시’)

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

[explanations]

* 지르다 : [=지름길로 가다] take a shorter way [shortcut]; cut across

- 도로를 질러서 가다 = 지름길로 가다 : cut across the road

* 지름 : a noun form of 지르다 by '-ㅁ'

* 길 : road; way; path

* 지름길 : shortcut <-- 지름 + 길

* -은 : a particle makes 지름길 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a consonant

* -이: a particle makes 지름길 subject after a word ends in a consonant

* 없다 : [Pronunciation: 업따] be not ; don’t exist; there is not ; there are not

* 없으시다 : an honourific form of 없다 by '-으시'

* 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’