Place marker '-에' with 있어요, 없어요, 많아요

 

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Place marker 에

에 operates like 'in' or 'at' in English when talking about someone/something being somewhere in a static state. Note, however, that not 에 but 에서 is used when talking about someone/something performing a dynamic action in a certain place.

 

• 우리는 교실에 있어요.
  We're in the classroom.
  
  
• 민호가 학교에 없어요.
  Minho is not at school.
  
  
• 유리는 바닥에 앉았고 유미는 소파에 누웠어요.
  Yuri sat on the floor and Yumi lay one the sofa.
  
  
• 이모는 캐나다에 살아요.
  My aunt lives in Canada.

 

Note that '살다(to live)' may appear with 에 as in the last example, but may also appear with the 'dynamic' marker 에서.

 

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어디에 있어요.pdf

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<참고> Jaehoon Yeon and Lucien Brown(2011), Korean: A comprehensive Grammar, 107.