Hi Summer 1. You can use either 저는 세탁소에 옷을 맡겼어요 / 저는 옷을 세탁소에 맡겼어요 Both sentences make sense and meaning the same 2. 에서 comes after "place where the action is happening" In English we may use it by adding at, in, from Eg. 나는 학교에 간다. I go to school 나는 학교에서 공부한다 I study at school Hope it helps... You are welcome to ask me any further question Mia

I learned two new vocabulary words and I'm confused about them: A. 옷을 세탁소에 맡기다 to leave clothes at the dry cleaner's B. 세탁소에서 옷을 찾다 to pick up the dry cleaning 1. I'm confused about the sentence structure. I thought basic Korean sentence structure is: Subject - Noun - Object - Verb * Korean’s basic word order: Subject(is composed of noun or noun phrase)+Object(is composed of noun or noun phrase)+Verb * Korean has so called case markers like 이/가, 을/를, which means ‘WORD ORDER’ is relatively free. * Case markers show the role of a word or phrase in the sentence. *So, 옷을(objet) 세탁소에(adverbial phrase) 맡기다. = 세탁소에 옷을 맡기다. 제는 옷을 세탁소에 맡겼어요. (I left the clothes at the dry cleaner's.) -->저는 2. I read many explanations about 에 vs 에세.--> 에서 에: used to indicate the destination of a verb (used with directional verbs) 에서: used to indicate the location of an action * ‘맡기다’ needs ‘-에’ and ‘찾다’ usually is used with ‘-에서’ 유치원에 아이를 맡기다. 은행에서 돈을 찾다. So shouldn't it be 세탁소에 옷을 찾다? -->wrong *I guess verbs have strong power in the sentence not only in Korean but also in English. ^^

If you go through the lessons at talktomeinkorean.com , look at lots of examples and it will just become natural. 걱정 마세요!