INDICATING A PLACE OR TIME: ~에

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You learned how to use the particles ~은/는 and ~을/를 to denote the purpose of certain words in a Korean sentence. The particle ~에 is also used to denote certain words in a sentence. Specifically, ~에 denotes a place or time. When used to identify a place, it is similar to the underlined words in English sentences below:

I am at school
I went to the park
I put a sticker on the wall

~에 is also used to denote the time in which something happens. This is similar to the underlined words in the English sentences below:

I ate breakfast at 10:00
I will go to school on Saturday
I was born in 2001

Yes, it is possible to have ~에 used twice in a sentence. For example, the Korean translation of the sentence "I went to the park at 10:00" would have ~에 attached to the word "park" and "10:00."

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