naengjanggo-e tomatorang oiga isseoseo achime gandanhi meogeosseo.

There were tomatoes and cucumbers in the refrigerator, so I ate them simply in the morning.

Breakdown of naengjanggo-e tomatorang oiga isseoseo achime gandanhi meogeosseo.

• 먹다: to eat
• ~가: subject particle
• ~에: location particle
• 있다: to exist

Questions & Answers about naengjanggo-e tomatorang oiga isseoseo achime gandanhi meogeosseo.

Why is 에 used in 냉장고에?

Here, 에 marks the location where something exists.

• 냉장고에 토마토랑 오이가 있어 = There are tomatoes and cucumbers in the fridge
• With 있다, the place where something exists is often marked with 에

So 냉장고에 means in the fridge or more literally at/in the refrigerator.

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Why does the sentence use 토마토랑 오이가 instead of putting 가 on both nouns?

In 토마토랑 오이가, 랑 connects 토마토 and 오이 as tomatoes and cucumbers, and then 가 marks the whole combined phrase as the subject of 있다.

So this structure works like:

• 토마토랑 오이 = tomatoes and cucumbers
• 토마토랑 오이가 있다 = Tomatoes and cucumbers exist / There are tomatoes and cucumbers

Korean often puts the subject marker only once, at the end of the full noun phrase.

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What does 랑 mean here? Is it the same as 하고 or 와/과?