oneul achime chinguhanteseo mesijireul badasseoyo.

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Breakdown of oneul achime chinguhanteseo mesijireul badasseoyo.

• ~를: object particle
• 오늘: today
• 아침: morning

Questions & Answers about oneul achime chinguhanteseo mesijireul badasseoyo.

Why does the sentence use both 오늘 and 아침에? Don’t they both refer to time?

Yes, they both refer to time, but they add different pieces of information.

• 오늘 = today
• 아침에 = in the morning / this morning

Together, 오늘 아침에 means this morning in the sense of today in the morning.

Korean often stacks time expressions like this:

• 오늘 오전에 = today in the morning
• 어제 밤에 = yesterday at night
• 내일 저녁에 = tomorrow evening

So it is completely natural to use both.

Why is there 에 after 아침, but not after 오늘?

That is a very common question.

In Korean, 에 is often used with time nouns to mean at / on / in:

• 아침에 = in the morning
• 세 시에 = at three o’clock
• 월요일에 = on Monday

But some time words often do not take 에, especially very common ones like:

• 오늘 = today
• 어제 = yesterday
• 내일 = tomorrow

So:

• 오늘 아침에 = natural
• 오늘에 = usually unnatural in this kind of sentence