No. 6,890 in Korean
있었는지를
"Whether there was" or "if there was."
In a sentence
그 곳에 사람이 있었는지를 확인해 보세요.
Check if there were people there.
Here, '있었는지를' is used to inquire about the existence of people in a certain place in the past.
그 책이 책장에서 있었는지를 아세요?
Do you know if the book was on the shelf?
In this sentence, '있었는지를' is used to question the location or state of the book in the past.
그 시간에 도움이 있었다면 얼마나 좋았을까요.
How great would it have been if there had been help at that time.
Here, the word is part of a conditional statement, hypothesizing about the presence of help in the past.
Hear it in real podcasts
The recording above is a synthetic voice. Hear how people say “있었는지를” in actual Korean podcasts.
Find “있었는지를” in podcastsLearn it from shows you like
LangTurbo plays Korean podcasts with a transcript and the English under every line. Tap a word like this one and it tells you what it means right there. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Learning English?
LangTurbo plays real English podcasts with every line translated into 한국어, and tells you what any word means in that sentence. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Korean books and courses on Amazon (an affiliate link: a purchase through it supports this site).