"전화기는 어디에 있나요?"

Translation: Where is the telephone?

[Juan738101]

Why do we use 있나요 instead of 있어요 here?

[BobaBunny5]

-나요 is a question ending used to soften your sentence. It just makes it sound a little more humble/polite rather than straight-up using "있어요?" can sound a bit aggressive.

[soobee620]

What form is this? Have we learned this? On this verb site, it gives the following for interrogative forms for 있다:

있어 (informal low)

있어요 (informal high)

있니 (formal low)

있습니까 (formal high)

[seouldasein]

Phone is the same as telephone.

[soobee620]

In an earlier lesson (Written), telephone was given as 전화. Can someone explain why we have 전화기?

[mwambalombe888]

전화기 is 電話幾 in Chinese.the 기 part is equivalent to the Chinese 幾 which means machine.you won't hear people use this much probably because it's as redundant as saying phone machine instead of simply saying phone.

[benohwang]

i say “전화” all the time n’ have never said “전화기.”