Forming past tense

[Lance]

[ Forming the Past Tense ]

You should already know the present tense before learning this lesson.

Example
(to go) 가다 becomes 갔어요 (went)

You can see that 가 has an ㅏ. Whenever a verb has ㅏ the formation of the past tense will use 았어요. Because 가 has a vowel ending, it is simply merged with 았어요 to become 갔어요. If the verb has an ㅗyou must also form it using the 았어요.

Basically
가 + 았어요 = 갔어요

An example of using a verb containing ㅗ
(to see) 보다 becomes 봤어요 (saw)

If there is no ㅏ or ㅗ then you will form the past tense by combining the verb with 었어요

(to eat) 먹다 becomes 먹었어요 (ate)


(to give) 주다 becomes 줬어요 (gave)
* Note - Enlarged to easier show the spelling.

If you have any questions, simply ask them here.

[bethieboo1688]

um... sorry for bothering... but the past tense for to give.... how would you say that?
is it a juwhoa or a juwee?
thanks for the post

[Hanaa]

I got very confused , i don't know why sometimes its easy and sometimes its not

[thestrals_00]

bethieboo1688 Wrote:um... sorry for bothering... but the past tense for to give.... how would you say that?
is it a juwhoa or a juwee?
thanks for the post

i believe it's jwoseoyo

[katayanagi]

its confusing me a bit..
anyway thx

[VIERAN]

whew! its hard to learn some are very confussing an it seems im not the only one, well thanks for this sir its helps ma alot.