Korean in everyday situations · Grammar review

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Korean in everyday situations

Reviews practise both sides: wherever Lukas and Lena would say something differently, you do it once as each.

준비했어요 / 찾았어요 / 없어졌어요

Use the basic past to recount preparations: 준비하다 → 준비했어요, 찾다 → 찾았어요. Each completed action can be its own short sentence, with and to show order.

means disappeared/is gone, and means broke/is broken. These useful result phrases are learned as whole verbs. There is no need to introduce a separate perfect tense.

For before an action, use the stem plus : . This is a small, useful time pattern. Contrast noun plus : .

봤어요 / 못 봤어요 / 그리고

보다 → 봤어요, 듣다 → 들었어요 and 가다 → 갔어요 are common past forms. Keep the stem changes you learned in the present. Do not build from the dictionary spelling.

Use between sentences for and, and for but. Short linked sentences give a clear account without a long subordinate clause.

means did not manage to see; says did not watch/look. A speaker can clarify what happened with , or . Do not change the verb for the person answering.

20시 14분 / 에 …을 했어요

A past account uses the same location, time and object particles as the present. has a time in and an object in . The past is carried by the final verb.

For a precise written timestamp, read 24-hour hours with Sino-Korean numbers: is . The ordinary evening equivalent is .

, and distinguish receiving, giving and taking away. A recipient takes or : .

그래서 / 왜 / 같이 찾아요

asks why. Answer with a short reason, then and a consequence: . means so/therefore, not because before a noun.

introduces a contrast. adds another event. These connectors work between complete short sentences, so you can tell a coherent story with A1 structures.

For a suggestion, return to plus the polite present: . A past event and a present proposal can sit side by side with clear time words.

갈 거예요 / 올 거예요

Tap a word to hear itTap a word to hear it and see its meaning
FormExampleMeaning
will go
will eat
will live
will come

For a plan or likely future, add after a vowel, or after most consonants: , . A final stays: . Keep the space before .

These forms do not change for I, you, he, she, we or they. A future time word makes a plan clear: . Ask a plan with the same form and rising intonation.

For an invitation, use or . is a negative plan; indicates expected inability. A plan is different from , wanting to go.

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