-있어요 comes from the verb 있다 which expresses that something "exists".
If you are talking about something or someone existing in a specific place 있다 means "to be".
Ex: I am here / it is over there / I'm here now.
If you are talking about something (or someone in some cases) in your possession it means "to have".
Ex: I have a sister / I have 11 dogs / Do you have a private plane?
Sometimes it can mean both.
Ex: The sentence "I have a sister" can be replaced by the sentence "This is a sister (in my family)" in Korean.
잆어요 is the opposite. It comes from the verb 없다. Even though there is a way to say the same thing by using 있어요 in a negative sentence, there is the independent verb in Korean (없어요) for expressing non-existence. It's more convenient to use 없어요 rather than saying "있지않아요" or "안 있어요".
When you use 있어요 / 없어요 with other nouns you have to put what you have/don't have in front of 있어요 / 없어요.
Ex: 물있어요. = I have water./ There is water. / They have water.
몰있어요? = Is there water? / Do you have water? / Do they have water?
친구있어요. = I have friends. / There are friends.
친구있어요? = Do you have friends? / Do they have friends? 시간있어요. = There is time. / I have time. / They have time.
시간있어요? = Is there time? / Do you have time? / Do they have time?
Just by replacing -있어요 with -없어요 you get the sentence in the opposite meaning.
물없어요. = There is no water. / I don't have water. / They don't have water.
친구없어요. = I don't have friends.
시간없어요. = There is no time. / I don't have time. / We don't have time.
If you say "시간은 있어요" people may thing you have nothing but time.
More expressions 있어요 / 없어요 can be used:
재미 = Fun
재미있어요 = It is fun. / It is interesting.
재미없어요 = It is not fun. / If is not intertesting.
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