Dative particle (Korean)

In Korean, the dative particles or the giver particles and recipient particles are used with animate referrents to mark who a thing (e.g. a gift) is "to" or "from."

-에게

marks a recipient

-한테

colloquial form of -에게, but can mean either "to" or "from" based on the context.

-께

honourific form of -에게

-한테서

marks a giver

The most obvious use-case is with 주다 ("to give"):

그거 저한테 주세요.

Please give that to me.

But the recipient could also be receiving more abstract thimgs, like knowledge, phone calls, etc.

친구가 저한테 소개했어요.

My friend introduced it to me.

미국에 보낼 거예요. 동생이 이국에 있어요.

I will send it to the US. My younger sibling is in the US.

엄마에게 전화를 했어요.

I called my mother.

경은 씨는 저한테 한국어를 가르쳐요.

Kyeong-eun teaches me Korean.