"The man stands up in the street."

Translation: 남자가 길에서 섭니다.

[CingGuite]

the correct answer wasn't one of the choices

[TeoJr]

Couldn't this be only 에 instead of 에서? I said that because there was another sentence involving "students standing on the road/street" and it was 에 ...

[BrigitteJo14]

This site basically cleared up my confusion >
https://learn-korean.livejournal.com/246326.html

[BarAdal3]

Actually, I believe the etymology of the grammatical structure to be ~에 서(어) 하다, to stand somewhere and do something, so this sentence really sounds silly to me. Think about it, you stand at a place (서) and do an action and these two verbs get merged in writing over time? I think it's very probable.

There is another grammatical structure that makes this possible, ~하여 …하다, for example: 돌아 가다; to go by turning back, 들어 오다; which comes from 들다+어 가다 to enter and come, ie to come in etc. These verbs are used so frequently that they are merged in modern spelling.

[Hamza715817]

If they used 에 it would imply that nothing was done AT the location. But 에세 means that an action was being committed AT the location.

[HobiTae]

why did they add 서 to the end of 길에서?

[EllieGuaj]

에 is a location. 에서 is doing an action at a location. For example: 한국에 = Korea (a location). 한국에서 = There's an action taken place in Korea. Hope this helps :D

[CrimsonMeme]

The man stands up in the street................ and dies!

[EktaSrivas9]

But it is there now..

[HarmonyHeart7]

Oh okay i understand now. 죄송합니다