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[dirty_scraps83]

Can anyone tell me the difference between?

있어요

있네요

있나요

있군요

cheers!

are they emotives or something?

[nobbyken]

Hi,

They all come from the root word for having or being something.
Try http://www.et-house.com for examples and usage.It is a Korean>English, English>Korean online dictionary made recently by scholars who recognised that dictionaries in existence in Korea hadn't been updated much.

Hope it helps,
Cheers.

[JAWINSEOUL]

있어요 (To exist somewhere)

있네요 (To give attention to)

있나요 (Is it ?)

있군요 (To agree)

Very subtle differences though.

[pesawattahi]

있여요 is merely saying "something is" with a polite ender.
있군요 is saying "something is, didn't you know?" with the polite ending.
Not sure about the other 2, you might want to have a Korean write them down to confirm if you transcribed correctly. I havn't seen a grammar pattern like that but then again I'm just another 외국인.
Go to Bandi and Lomi's bookstore in 종각역 look in the foreigners section and buy a copy of "Korean Grammar for International Learners".

[ABC KID]

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[Chris Kwon]

If you mean 있(는군요) , its an exclamatory ending.

[Privateer]

[adventureman]

what about the ..드라 ending? Ex. 나는 집에 가드라...it is similar in anyway to the 느라 conjunction (ex. 너무 바쁘느라고 아직 집에 갈 수 없어요)

a friend wrote a message to me with that ending the other day I can't figure out what it means...its not in the Sogang level 4 grammar reference books either...

She was from Singapore, so I'm not sure if she knew exactly how is should be used either...

Thanks for the help....

[PeteJB]

Your right, she has no idea what she's doing. Although it's similar to 가라. 집에 가라. 게임 해라. ETC. Hm it's a bit different from simple 가다. It's kind of like saying "Well go do that then!". 느라 is totally different and relating to providing an "excuse" pertaining to a situation. For example, 일하느라고 전화를 못 받았어요 - I was so busy working I couldn't pick up the phone.

[out of context]

There is no verb ending -드라 in standard Korean, but it could be a variant of -더라 (the "retrospective" or "subjective past" ending). I often hear people vary ㅓ and ㅡ in verb endings, like -던가 instead of -든가 or -거던 instead of -거든.