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Asking if a store has something

물건이 있는지 묻기·Prepared table·Reviewed by a person

In shops you speak to staff in 해요체, whoever they are. Here you compare different ways of saying it to the same person.

Shop staff · server

해요체

이거 있어요?

Most common

Other ways to say it

  • 이거 있나요?

    Phrased as asking if it’s possible, a bit tentative

    • Ending어요→나요
  • 이거 있을까요?

    More tentative, expecting it might not be there

    • Ending어요→을까요
  • 저기요, 이거 있어요?

    Calling out when the clerk is far away or out of sight

    • Title added저기요,
  • 이거 있으세요?

    More polite, to an older clerk

    • Subject honorific -시-세요
Changes are measured against the first form.Word swappedSubject honorific -시-ParticleTitle addedSoftenedEndingnot in the dictionary

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