Learn Korean (TTMIK)

Lesson 11

In this lesson we are going to study how to ask “Do you have ...?” or “Is there ...?” and also how to say “Give me .... please.” or “I’d like to have ... please.” 

Do you remember how to say “I have ...” “You have ...” or “There is ...”?

[i-sseo-yo] “I have ...” “You have ...” “There is ...”

 [eop-seo-yo] “I don’t have ...” “You don’t have ...” “There isn’t ...”

Examples

sa-gwa = apple 

sa-gwa i-sseo-yo = I have an apple. There are apples. They have some apples.

sa-gwa eop-seo-yo = I don’t have an apple. There is no apple. 

o-ren-ji = orange

o-ren-ji i-sseo-yo = I have an orange. There is an orange. 

o-ren-ji eop-seo-yo = I don’t have an orange. There is no orange. 

Now, if you want to ask whether someone has something or not or whether something exists?

Simply by raising the tone at the end of the sentence, you can make it a question.

i-sseo-yo = Do you have ...? Is there ...? 

eop-seo-yo = Don’t you have ...? There isn’t ...? 

Examples

sa-gwa i-sseo-yo = I have an apple. There are some apples.

sa-gwa i-sseo-yo = Do you have an apple? Do you have apples? 

sa-gwa i-sseo-yo = You don’t have any apple? There is no apple?

Let’s take some other nouns for example.

si-gan = time

si-gan i-sseo-yo? = Do you have some time?

si-gan eop-seo-yo? = You don’t have time?

keo-pi = coffee

keo-pi i-sseo-yo? = Do you have coffee?

keo-pi eop-seo-yo? = Don’t you have coffee? You don’t have coffee?

Now, after figuring whether someone has something or not, you might as well want to ask for  some of it, by saying “Please give me ...” or “I’d like to have ... please.” 

ju-se-yo = Please give me 

ju-se-yo comes from the verb ju-da which means “to give” so literally, ju-se-yo  only means “please give” in the polite/formal language regardless of to whom or by whom. 

Examples

A: sa-gwa i-sseo-yo? = Do yo have apples? 

B: ne. sa-gwa i-sseo-yo = Yes, we have apples. 

A: sa-gwa ju-se-yo. = Give me (an/some) apple(s). 

** Please note that there is no strict disctinction between plural and singular in Korean nouns.

A: keo-pi i-sseo-yo? = Do you have coffee?

B: an-i-yo. keo-pi eop-seo-yo = No, we don’t have coffee.

A: u-yu i-sseo-yo? = Do you have milk?

B: ne. u-yu i-sseo-yo. = Yes, we have milk.

A: u-yu ju-se-yo. = Give me some milk, please. 

ju-se-yo can be used in many different situations: when you ask someone to hand something over to you, when you are ordering something in a restaurant, when are asking for an item in a shop, or, when attached to a verb (which we will learn how to do in a later lesson) , to ask someone to do something for you. 

More Examples

a-i-seu-keu-rim ju-se-yo = Please give me some ice cream.

haem-beo-geo ju-se-yo = Please give me a hamburger.

gim-chi ju-se-yo = Please give me some kimchi. 

bul-go-gi ju-se-yo = Please give me some bulgogi.

bap ju-se-yo = Please give me rice. Please give me food.