We have seen in a previous section that “to be” is used in sentences to mean “is equivalent to”:
This is a pencil.
However, sometimes “to be” means “to exist”:
The pencil is on the chair. (The pencil exists on the chair.)
There is a school in Seoul. (The school exists in Seoul.)
We’ll need one more particle, 에, which means in, at, or on, in order to make sentences like the ones above, and we’ll need these words:
| 있다 | to exist |
| 없다 | to not exist |
| 의자 | chair |
Sentence Types