Cami Jayde
Korean Verbs...

안녕하습니까~!

 

I am currently learning about conjugating Korean verbs to the past and present tense. Usually this is hard to do in languages but I've found it much easier in Korean! Still, I have a couple questions. I would appreciate anyone who could help!!

 

First, the verb 기타리다 when written in past tense is 기타렸어요 and the verb 가르치다 when written in past tense is 가르쳤어요. Does this mean that verbs ending with the vowelㅣare followed by 였어요?

Second, -고 십어요 means "I want to...", right? So to say "I wanted to..." would it be -고 십었어요? So 자고 십어요 would be "I want to sleep" and 자고 십었어요 would be "I wanted to sleep"?

Third, and lastly, is there a rule for turning verbs ending in ㅡ (like 크다) to past tense? Do you drop the ㅡ vowel? Because I've seen 크다 written as 컸어요 and the ㅡ is completely missing.

 

감사합니다! ^^

Sep 22, 2014 5:44 AM
Comments · 2

We use -았/었어요 to make the past tense.

Verbs ending in ㅏ or ㅗ + -았어요.

Verbs ending in other than ㅏ or ㅗ + -었어요

기다리다(to wait) : 기다리 + 었어요 = 기다렸(리+었)어요

가르치다(to teach) : 가르치 + 었어요 = 가르쳤(치+었)어요

 

자고 싶었어요 and 보고 싶었어요 is correct as the past tense of 자고 싶다 and 보고 싶다.

 

ㅡ is changed to ㅓ. It is also same when you conjugate to the present tense. 크다 - 커요, 쓰다 - 써요.

 

 

쓰다 - 썼어요.

 

September 23, 2014

Whoops! It should be 싶 not 십! My bad!

September 22, 2014