에서
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Grammar · 1 sense
Place of action
Examples
서울에서 멀어요?
Is it far from Seoul?
자습실에서 5시간 공부했어요.
I studied for 5 hours at the self-study room.
그중에서 누가 제일 좋은데?
Who do you like the most among us?
When you'd hear it
에서 is neutral and extremely common in both conversation and writing. Learners encounter it with places where activities happen, such as studying at school, eating at a restaurant, or working at an office.
What learners get wrong
For an action, 에서 marks the place where it happens, while 에 commonly marks a static location: 자습실에서 공부하다 versus 자습실에 있다. In 서울에서 멀다, 에서 has a different source-related use, so that sentence is not an action-place example.
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