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📍 Where Things Are
Unit 12 of 30 in the Kaja Hangul course.
Every phrase below is shown in 한글 with a romanisation, what it actually means, and a recording you can play.
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The phrases
책상 위에 있어요
chaeksang wie isseoyo
It's on the desk
Korean puts the position word AFTER the noun: 책상 위 = desk-top. Then 에 marks it as a location, and 있어요 says something is there.
가방 안에 있어요
gabang ane isseoyo
It's in the bag
안 = inside, 밖 = outside. 가방 안에, 집 밖에. Swap the position word and the whole sentence still works.
의자 아래에 있어요
uija araee isseoyo
It's under the chair
아래 = under. 밑 means the same thing and is the more common one in speech: 의자 밑에.
은행 옆에 있어요
eunhaeng yeope isseoyo
It's next to the bank
옆 = beside. 은행 옆에, 편의점 옆에. Note the sound: 옆에 is read 'yeo-pe', because the ㅍ slides into 에.
집 앞에서 만나요
jip apeseo mannayo
Let's meet in front of the house
앞 = front, 뒤 = behind. It's 에서 rather than 에 here because something HAPPENS there — meeting. 에 is for simply being somewhere.
편의점이 어디에 있어요?
pyeonuijeomi eodie isseoyo?
Where is the convenience store?
이/가 marks the thing you're asking about. The reply is a position word: 저기에 있어요, 은행 옆에 있어요.
화장실은 저기에 있어요
hwajangsireun jeogie isseoyo
The toilet is over there
여기 here (by me) · 거기 there (by you) · 저기 over there (away from us both). English only has two of these.
여기에서 멀어요?
yeogieseo meoreoyo?
Is it far from here?
멀다 = to be far, 가깝다 = to be close (가까워요). 에서 here means 'from'. In speech 여기에서 shrinks to 여기서.
책이 책상 위에 없어요
chaegi chaeksang wie eopseoyo
The book isn't on the desk
없어요 is the opposite of 있어요 — its own word. Never 안 있어요.
우리 집은 학교 뒤에 있어요
uri jibeun hakgyo dwie isseoyo
My house is behind the school
뒤 = behind. Koreans say 우리 (our) where English says 'my' — 우리 집, 우리 엄마, 우리 나라. Saying 제 집 sounds oddly possessive.
Words introduced here
집 — house / home학교 — school의자 — chair책상 — desk책 — book가방 — bag은행 — bank위 — top, above아래 — under, below앞 — front뒤 — behind, back옆 — beside, next to안 — inside밖 — outside사이 — between멀다 — to be far우리 — we, our인사하다 — to greet짧다 — to be short높다 — to be high낮다 — to be low넓다 — to be wide / spacious좁다 — to be narrow무겁다 — to be heavy가볍다 — to be light (in weight)새롭다 — to be new오래되다 — to be old (of things)밑 — underneath그거 — that (near you)저거 — that over there가깝다 — to be near냉장고 — fridge
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