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INTRODUCTION
Seol: 안녕하세요, 윤설입니다.
Keith: Hey, Keith here. Questions. So, we got through our introductions. I know you’re a Korean, I know you’re a student, and I know your name. Now, there’s something I want to know, another small little thing.
Seol: What’s that?
Keith: I mean, Seol, you’re an attractive girl. You know, you’re fun and…
Seol: You’re lying because people cannot see me.
Keith: No, no. You’re crazy, see? That’s why I want to know. You got a boyfriend at all? No?
Seol: 아니요.
Keith: Oh. Okay, that’s it for the show. We’re done for today. Let’s get out of here and have a date. All right, just kidding. But all you fellows out there, you can message something if you like. Is that okay?
Seol: Sure.
Keith: Really?
Seol: Yeah.
Keith: Okay. She’s very open, very friendly, and single and ready to mingle. So let’s give you guys a shout out there to be able to ask someone if someone has a boyfriend or girlfriend in Korean.

Lesson conversation

윤설 씨는 남자친구가 있습니까?
윤설 네. 저는 남자친구가 있습니다. Keith, 씨는 여자친구가 있습니까?
아니오. 여자친구가 없습니다.
윤설 여자친구가 없습니까?
네. 없습니다.
Seol: 한 번 더 천천히.
윤설 씨는 남자친구가 있습니까?
윤설 네. 저는 남자친구가 있습니다. Keith, 씨는 여자친구가 있습니까?
아니오. 여자친구가 없습니다.
윤설 여자친구가 없습니까?
네. 없습니다.
Seol: 영어로 한 번 더.
윤설 씨는 남자친구가 있습니까?
Keith: “Yun Seol, do you have a boyfriend?”
윤설 네. 저는 남자친구가 있습니다.
Keith: Yes. I have a boyfriend.
Seol: Keith 씨는 여자친구가 있습니까?
Keith: Keith, do you have a girlfriend?
아니오. 여자친구가 없습니다.
Keith: No. I do not have a girlfriend.
윤설 여자친구가 없습니까?
Keith: You do not have a girlfriend?
네. 없습니다.
Keith: Yes, I do not have a girlfriend.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Seol: Oh, poor Keith.
Keith: Do you really sympathize with me?
Seol: No, not really.
Keith: No..?
Seol: Because I don’t have a boyfriend, too!
Keith: Okay, okay. So we’re both single and ready to mingle. We can mingle…
Seol: Not together.
Keith: Not.. All right. Well, do you think this is a typical way that someone asks someone, “Hey, you got a boyfriend? You got a girlfriend?”
Seol: Yeah.
Keith: Yeah? They just say it like…
Seol: Yes. In Korea, this is okay.
Keith: Really?
Seol: Yeah. Asking about boyfriend or girlfriend is just okay.
Keith: So people just bring it up whenever they want, huh?
Seol: Yes.
Keith: Yes? So has that happened to you a lot?
Seol: Yeah, sometimes.
Keith: Sometimes. See, I told you boys, she’s popular. She’s attractive.
Seol: Yeah. What about you? When you were in Korea, did many people ask this question? Not really?
Keith: 아니요, 아니요.
Seol: I can guess.
Keith: You’re bringing up painful memories over here, okay? So why don’t we move into the vocabulary?
Seol: Okay.
VOCAB LIST
Keith: First we have…
Seol: 남자 [natural native speed]
Keith: Man or male.
Seol: 남자 [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 남자 [natural native speed]
Keith: Next is…
Seol: 친구
Keith: Friend.
Seol: 친구
Keith: Put these two together and it’s…
Seol: 남자친구 [natural native speed].
Keith: “Male friend or boyfriend.” Next, we have…
Seol: 여자 [natural native speed]
Keith: Girl or female.
Seol: 여자 [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 여자 [natural native speed].
Keith: Next is…
Seol: 친구
Keith: “Friend.” Put these two together again and it’s…
Seol: 여자친구 [natural native speed]
Keith: “Girlfriend.” Next we have…
Seol: 있다 [natural native speed]
Keith: To have/ to exist.
Seol: 있다 [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 있다 [natural native speed].
Keith: Next is…
Seol: 없다 [natural native speed]
Keith: To not have/to not exist.
Seol: 없다 [slowly - broken down by syllable]. 없다 [natural native speed].

Lesson focus

Keith: Okay. Let’s take a deeper look into this conversation. The first line of this conversation is 윤설 씨는 남자친구가 있습니까? The first part is…
Seol: 윤설 씨
Keith: This is 윤설 followed by the honorific suffix. Next is…
Seol: 는
Keith: The topic marking particle. After that is…
Seol: 남자친구
Keith: “Boyfriend.” This is followed by the subject marker…
Seol: 가
Keith: The subject marking particles 이 and 가 are used here because of the verbs 있다 and 없다. They’re used as a set. So whenever you have the verbs 있다 or 없다, you need the subject marking particle 이 or 가. And lastly, we have…
Seol: 있습니까?
Keith: This means “to exist” or “to have.” So altogether, the phrase is “Yun Seol boyfriend exist?” This is translated as “Yun Seol, do you have a boyfriend?” Okay, let’s take a deeper look into this verb. It’s a very, very important one today, so listen closely. Seol, can you give us the dictionary form of the verb?
Seol: 있다
Keith: This word 있다 means “to exist.” It’s kind of an awkward translation when you hear it in English – boyfriend exists? But here, you can translate it as “Yun Seol, do you have a boyfriend?” As in “a boyfriend exists for you?” So in that sense, it’s “Do you have a boyfriend?” And this is conjugated as…
Seol: 있습니까?
Keith: This is the question form of this verb. So another example is let’s say you have a boyfriend. Oh wait! That’s the next part of the conversation in there.
Seol: Yes.
Keith: Okay. So why don’t we jump into that?
Seol: 저는 남자친구가 있습니다.
Keith: Okay, the first part is…
Seol: 저
Keith: “I” followed by…
Seol: 는
Keith: The topic marking particle. After that is…
Seol: 남자친구
Keith: Once again, boyfriend. After that is…
Seol: 가
Keith: The subject marking particle. And lastly, we have…
Seol: 있습니다.
Keith: “This is…”
Seol: 있다
Keith: And this is conjugated as…
Seol: 있습니다.
Keith: This is conjugated in the most polite way. This means “to exist.” Or when we translate it, “to have.” So “Yes, I have a boyfriend.” Oh, I’m heartbroken.
Seol: But this is just a script. In my real life, I don’t have a boyfriend.
Keith: Okay. Next, we’re going to get into “I don’t have”, which will come useful for both you and me, right?
Seol: Yeah.
Keith: Okay. So the next sentence we have is..
Seol: 키스씨는 여자친구가 있습니까?
Keith: Okay, the first part is…
Seol: 키스씨..
Keith: “Keith” followed by the honorific suffix. Next is…
Seol: 는
Keith: The topic marking particle. Next…
Seol: 여자친구
Keith: “Girlfriend.” This is almost the same as boyfriend but the word for men 남자 changed to girl 여자. So here, it’s…
Seol: 여자친구
Keith: Followed by…
Seol: 가
Keith: The subject marking particle. And lastly we have..
Seol: 있습니까?
Keith: “To exist”, the conjugated form of the interrogative. The next line we have is…
Seol: 아니요.
Keith: “No.” After that?
Seol: 여자친구가 없습니다.
Keith: What do we have in the beginning?
Seol: 여자친구
Keith: Girlfriend followed by…
Seol: 가
Keith: The subject marking particle. The next part, listen up closely…
Seol: 없습니다.
Keith: Okay. This is to say “I do not have.” Literally, this is “girlfriend not exist.” We translate this as “I don’t have a girlfriend. A girlfriend does not exist for me.” Seol, do you have a lot of money?
Seol: 아니요. 없습니다.
Keith: So here, she just said “No, to not exist.” “I don’t have.” Do you have a lot of guys that like you, that want to take you out on dates and…?
Seol: 없습니다.
Keith: No? Okay. Well, we’ll work on 있습니다 all right? We’ll work on that one, okay? Okay. After that is….
Seol: 여자친구가 없습니까?
Keith: Okay. The first part of that is…
Seol: 여자친구
Keith: Once again, “girlfriend” followed by…
Seol: 가
Keith: The subject marking particle. And lastly, we have…
Seol: 없습니까?
Keith: Once again, this is “to not exist” but it’s conjugated into the question form. So I just want to point out that 없습니다 is its own word; it’s not a conjugated form of 있다. It’s 없다. It’s another word. So this has its own set of conjugations. It’s a totally different word. It’s kind of related, I guess. 있다 “to exist” but another word is 없다 “to not exist.” Okay. And lastly we have….
Seol: 네. 없습니다.
Keith: “Yes, I don’t have.” To review really quickly, how about we go over “to have” and “to not have”?
Seol: 있습니다.
Keith: “To have.”
Seol: 있-습-니-다. 있습니다.없습니다
Keith: “To not exist”, “to not have”.
Seol: 없-습-니다. 없습니다.
Keith: Wow. All right. Great job! Great job!
Seol: Okay.
Keith: Okay. 네. 아니요. 그래요?

Outro

Keith: Well, that’s going to wrap it up for today. See you later!
Seol: 안녕!

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