[ 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.

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

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

its confusing me a bit..
anyway thx

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.