Did not have in Korean 🇰🇷

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did not have	없었어

How to say “did not have” in Korean? “없었어”. Here you will learn how to pronounce “없었어” correctly and in the comments below you will be able to get all sorts of advice on did not have in Korean like tips & tricks to remember it, questions, explanations and more.

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Tips to Remember:
• Think of "없다" as “not have/exist,” so "없었어" is like “had not” with the extra -었어 ending indicating the past. Maybe remember it as “no (없) + past (었어)” to form “didn't have.”
• Associate the sound “eopseoss-eo” with a time when you truly “didn't have” something.

Explanations:
• "없었어" is the informal past-tense form of the verb "없다" (to not have or to not exist).
• It conveys that something did not exist, occur, or was not possessed in the past.

Other Words with Similar Meanings:
• 없었다 (eop-seot-da): Another way to express the past without informal contraction.
• 존재하지 않았다 (jon-jae-ha-ji anh-atta): Means “did not exist” in a more formal or emphatic tone.

Conjugations of 없다:
• Dictionary form: 없다 (eop-da) – “to not have/exist.”
• Present (informal low): 없어 (eop-seo) – “don’t have/doesn’t exist.”
• Past (informal low): 없었어 (eop-seot-sseo) – “didn’t have/didn’t exist.”
• Future (informal low): 없을 거야 (eop-seul geo-ya) – “won’t have/won’t exist.”

• Present (formal high): 없습니다 (eop-seup-ni-da) – “don’t have/doesn't exist.”
• Past (formal high): 없었습니다 (eop-seot-seup-ni-da) – “didn't have/didn't exist.”
• Future (formal high): 없을 것입니다 (eop-seul geo-sip-ni-da) – “won’t have/won’t exist.”

Examples of Sentences:
• 나는 어제 돈이 없었어.
Romanization: Na-neun eo-je don-i eop-seot-sseo.
Meaning: I didn’t have any money yesterday.

• 그때 시간이 없었어.
Romanization: Geu-ttae shi-gan-i eop-seot-sseo.
Meaning: There wasn’t any time then.

• 그 책은 우리 집에 없었어.
Romanization: Geu chaek-eun u-ri jip-e eop-seot-sseo.
Meaning: That book wasn’t in our house.

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