This is the 2898th most frequent Korean word.
존재하지
"존재하지" means "does not exist."
This sentence uses '존재하지' to describe something that does not exist in reality — a hypothetical context.
세상에 존재하지 않는 동물이 있다고 상상해 보세요.
Imagine an animal that does not exist in the world.
Here, '존재하지' is used to express the absence of particular records in a factual context.
자료를 확인했지만 그런 기록은 존재하지 않았습니다.
I checked the documents, but such a record did not exist.
In this sentence, '존재하지' is used to describe the non-existence of a name in the historical records.