hoeuisire keompyuteoga isseoyo.

There is a computer in the meeting room.

Breakdown of hoeuisire keompyuteoga isseoyo.

• ~가: subject particle
• ~에: location particle
• 컴퓨터: computer
• 있다: to exist
• 회의실: meeting room

Questions & Answers about hoeuisire keompyuteoga isseoyo.

What does 회의실에 mean, and what role does the particle 에 play?

회의실 means meeting room. The particle 에 marks a location where something exists or happens. Here it means “in/at the meeting room.”

Why is 컴퓨터 followed by the subject marker 가?

Existential sentences (saying something exists) use 이/가 to mark the thing that exists. So 컴퓨터가 있어요 literally means “a computer exists.”

What does 있어요 mean, and how does it relate to 있다?

있다 is the dictionary form meaning “to exist” or “to have.” 있어요 is the polite present-tense form. In this sentence it means “there is.”

Why isn't 컴퓨터 plural? How do you express “computers” if needed?

Korean nouns aren’t inflected for number. Whether it’s singular or plural is understood from context. To explicitly say “one computer” you’d say 컴퓨터 한 대, and “three computers” is 컴퓨터 세 대.

Why can’t I use 회의실에서 here instead of 회의실에?

에서 marks the location of an action (“at/in” where you do something). Since 있다 expresses existence (not an action), we use 에 to mark where something exists.

Can I say 회의실에는 컴퓨터가 있어요? What’s the nuance of adding 는?

Yes. 회의실에는 is 에 + 는, turning “in the meeting room” into a topic (“as for the meeting room”). It adds emphasis or suggests a contrast, like “In the meeting room, there is a computer (but maybe nowhere else).”

Is the word order fixed, or can I say 컴퓨터가 회의실에 있어요?

Korean is quite flexible as long as particles are correct. 컴퓨터가 회의실에 있어요 is perfectly natural; it just shifts focus to the computer.