어 있다

eoitda

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Also spelled oitda

is in a resulting state

The action already happened and its result is still sitting there: chocolate went into the bread and is inside it, a wake-up time got decided and is decided, someone went somewhere and is there. Do not confuse it with 고 있다, which is the action itself in progress — 어 있다 is the leftover state, not the doing. It goes with verbs that take no object, including passive ones like being equipped, being set, or being written on a sign.

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빵 안에 초콜릿이 들  이런 뜻이고요