2024-11-18

Let's learn about "관광 정보 센터가 있나요?"

(근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있나요? Is there a tourist information center near here?

[other expressions]
<반말(talking down to)>
- (근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있니? (to younger people or friends)
- (근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있나? (to younger people or friends)
- (근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있냐? (to younger people or friends)
- (근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있어? (to younger people or friends)
- (근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있는가? (to younger people or friends)
- (근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있는지? (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>
- (근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있나요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- (근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있어요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- (근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있는가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- (근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있는지요? (honourific by ‘-요’)

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>
- (근처에) 관광 정보 센터(가) 있습니까? (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)

[explanations]
* 근처 : [近處] [=이웃] the neighborhood; the vicinity; [=주위] the surroundings; the environs <-- 근(near) + 처(a place)
- 근처의 :!neighboring / nearby / adjacent / close by
- 이 근처(에) : around[about] here

* -에 : a place suffix

* 관광 : [觀光] sightseeing; tourism

* 정보 : [情報] (a piece[bit] of) information; intelligence; a report; [=자료] data; advice(s); news
- 귀중한 정보 : a valuable piece[bit] of information
- 거짓 정보 : a false[wrong] tip

* 센터 : centre

* -가 : a particle makes 관광 정보 센터 subjective after a word ends in a vowel; this can be omitted

* (-이/-가) 있다 : [Pronunciation: 읻따] (1) be; exist; there is[are] (2) have (3) [as the form of -를/을/-ㄹ 수 있다] be able to do

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

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