Learn Hardcore Korean: haksaengege chuga hyetaegi isseoyo. - There are additional benefits for students.

-에게 marks the recipient or beneficiary (to/for someone).
With 학생, it signals that the additional benefits are directed to students (benefits for students).

Can I use -한테 instead of -에게?

Yes. -한테 is the more casual, conversational counterpart to -에게.
Register:
- 학생에게 추가 혜택이 있어요. (neutral/polite)
- 학생한테 추가 혜택이 있어요. (casual/polite)
- -께 is the honorific form (for someone you honor): e.g., 고객님께 안내가 있습니다. Avoid using -께 for students unless you intentionally want to honor them, which is unusual.

Why not use -에 instead of -에게?

-에 is mainly locative/temporal (at, in, on; at a time).
학생에 is ungrammatical in this meaning. Use 학생에게 (or 학생한테) to mark a human recipient/beneficiary.

What’s the nuance if I say 학생에게는?

Adding -는 makes a contrastive/topic nuance: 학생에게는 추가 혜택이 있어요 ≈ “As for students, there are additional benefits (implying maybe others don’t).”
In speech, 에게는 often contracts to 에겐: 학생에겐.

Why does 혜택 take -이? Could I use -은/-는 instead?

-이/가 marks the grammatical subject: 추가 혜택이 있다 = “(Additional) benefits exist.”
Using -은/는 topicalizes/contrasts: 추가 혜택은 있어요 ≈ “There are additional benefits, at least (maybe other things aren’t available).”

Is this expressing existence or possession?

With N1에게 N2가 있다, Korean often expresses possession: “N1 has N2.”
So 학생에게 추가 혜택이 있어요 = “Students have additional benefits” / “There are additional benefits for students.”
You can also topicalize the possessor: 학생은 추가 혜택이 있어요 (similar meaning, slightly different information focus).

Do I need the plural, like 학생들(에게)?

Korean often leaves plural unmarked when speaking generally. 학생에게 can mean “students” in general.
Use 학생들(에게/에게는) when you want to emphasize multiple specific students.
If you want to stress that it’s for plural recipients: 학생들에게 추가 혜택이 있어요.

Can I say “추가 혜택이 학생에게 있어요” instead? Is that natural?

Yes, 추가 혜택이 학생에게 있어요 is grammatical and natural.
Word order shifts nuance/focus: this version can put a bit more focus on 추가 혜택 (the thing that exists) and then identify the recipient as 학생.

What’s the politeness level of 있어요, and what are other forms?

Is there a more explicit way to say “benefits for students”?

What’s the difference among 추가 혜택, 추가적인 혜택, and 추가로 혜택?

추가 혜택: most common, concise noun-noun phrase (“additional benefits”).
추가적인 혜택: more formal/literary; adds an adjectival -적인.
추가로 혜택이 있어요: 추가로 is an adverb (“additionally”), so it reads like “Additionally, there are benefits.”

How do I pronounce the sentence?

Revised romanization: haksaeng-ege chuga hyetaegi isseoyo.
Tips:
- 학생 often sounds like “hak-ssaeng” due to tensification.
- 혜택이 links as “hye-tae-gi” (the final ㄱ of 혜택 carries over before 이).
- 있어요 sounds like “i-sseo-yo” (double-s sound), not “it-seo-yo.”

Can I drop the subject marker and say “학생에게 추가 혜택 있어요”?

In casual speech, yes: particles like -이/가 are often omitted when context is clear.
In writing or careful speech, keep -이: 추가 혜택이 있어요.

How do I say there are no additional benefits for students?

Can I use -에게 with non-human nouns?

-에게 is primarily for animate recipients (people/animals).
For institutions/organizations, -에게 can appear in formal writing, but many speakers prefer alternatives:
- Location/topic: 회사에는 혜택이 있어요.
- “For” phrasing: 회사를 위한 혜택이 있어요.
Avoid -에게 with clearly inanimate things like objects (e.g., not 책에게).