"공원이 없습니다."
Translation:There is no park.
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The linguist in me believes that 'gongweon' and the Japanese word for park 'kouen' have the same origin (from Chinese maybe?)
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Because many words or phrases in those languages are actually from (ancient) Chinese, just like the modern English, in which quiet a lot of words (including word roots), are originated from ancient Greek or Latin.
Hmm. This is problematic and, read at face value, largely untrue. You could say that many foreign loanwords of non-Chinese origin passed into Korean via Japanese, that would be true. 빵, 라디에타 (래디에터), 깁스, etc. But many of these have later been changed to reflect an Englishish pronunciation, when applicable. Think words like the aforementioned 래디에터.
Some old folks still remember their parents occassionally saying words like 와라바시 instead of 젓가락, but again, these have largely been displaced in favor of earlier Korean forms or English words.
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They are, and only for languages that have some easily available machine reader the can use, so mostly just the biggest four or five.
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It is still formal. No problem using that to superiors. If you only used 없어, that would be informal.
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Is it? Wikipedia does not seem to agree:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_speech_levels#Haeyo-che
With apologies to Bill Clinton, it depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is. In English the word "is" has multiple functions. You can express equality between two things ("the sky is blue"); in linguistics this is known as a copular verb. Alternatively, you can also express existence ("there isn't a park") or location ("I am at the school").
In Korean these meanings have different words. 이다 or 아니다 (formal form: 입니다 / 아닙니다; polite form: 이에요* / 아니에요) expresses whether or not two things are equal.
하늘이 파란섹이에요.
The sky is blue.
저는 학생이 아닙니다.
I am not a student.
* If the word preceding 이에요 ends with a vowel, then it turns into 예요 instead.
있다 or 없다 (formal: 있습니다 / 없습니다; polite: 있어요 / 없어요) expresses existence of something (in a particular location, in someone's possession, etc.)
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New York is in the United States.
저는 책이 없어요.
I don't have a book. [Speaking about me, there is no book.]
공원이 없습니다.
There isn't a park.
Is it possible to use the topic marking particle instead of the subject one with park?
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The "correct" answer for this question according to duolingo is theres not a park. I just had "___ not a park", to fill in. Since theres not a park isn't grammatically correct as far as I know, I wrote It's instead.