Location-marking particle (Korean)

In Korean, the location-marking particles a place in which a verb is taking place, places of origin, origin locations and origin destinations in ranges, beginning and ending times in ranges.

-에

The particle -에 is used for destinations, with the verb 있다, or for times at which something happens.

내일 밤에 비가 올지 몰라요.

It might rain tomorrow night.

• While one might reason that the rain is taking place tomorrow night and that -에서 should be used, ... I think the only reason we use -에 is because 내일 밤 is a time.

-에서

The particle -에서 marks the location in which an action verb is taking place, or where something is from.

여기에서 저기까지

from here to there

The verb 살다 ("to live") is an example of a static verb, a rare class of verb that can be used with either -에 or -에서 while maintaining the same meaning.

-에서 is occasionally contracted to -서:

여기서 저한테 기다리세요.

Please wait for me here.

-부터

Like -에서, the particle -부터 may translate to the English word "from," but -에서 is generally used with locations while -부터 is used with times.

어제부터

from/since yesterday

-까지

The particle -까지 marks a destination or the end of a range. While two different particles are used for origin locations and beginnings of ranges, there is no such split for -까지.

내일까지

to/until tomorrow

지금부터 모레까지

from now until overmorrow

여기에서 저기까지

from here to there