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    BEG 22 | ~(으)면 If

    ByKorean Jream

    MEANING Used both for hypothetical, imaginative situations as well as likely situations (“if and when”) English “when” is translated as “~(으)면” when talking about general tendencies CONJGUATION Dictionary stem 다 Consonant 으면 Vowel 면 Used with both verb and adjective stemsCan be used with different tenses : ~았/었으면 (past), ~(으)ㄹ 거면(probability, future) 좋다 to be…

  • INT 2 | REASON ~어/아서 & ~(으)니까

    ByKorean Jream

    ~어/아서: neutral reason and result Comes from 그래서 (so, therefore) : A so B Reason~어/아서 result: neutral and factual Only used in statements: cannot be used in suggestions and commands Tenseless: Even when talking about the past, it’s just ~어/아서 CONJUGATION Conjugation is the same as ~아/어(요) ending Bright vowels (ㅗ,ㅏ): 아서 좋다 to be…

  • 1. Hangeul (Alphabet) – Consonants

    ByKorean Jream

    Cool Facts about Hangeul Han-geul (한글) is the name of the Korean writing system: it is the name of Korean alphabet. Han-geul (한글) is different from Han-gug-eo (한국어), the language including spoken and written. The original scrip of Hangeul, ‘Hun-min-jeong-eum’ (훈민정음) was designated as UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 1997. It was promulgated…

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    BEG 8 | ~(으)ㄹ 거예요 vs ~(으)ㄹ게요

    ByKorean Jream

    They are both used for future actions, but in different contexts. *In service industries, employees use this to tell the customers to do something. “이 쪽으로 오실게요. (“You will come this way.” with the honorific suffix ~시~) as if the listener is volunteering to do so. By doing so, they are trying to sound polite…

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    INT 12 | ~더라(고) Retrospective

    ByKorean Jream

    Dictionary stem Retrospective Suffix(es) Ending Polite Ending   더 ~라(고) ~ 요   더 ~(으)ㄴ데 From 그런데(but)INT 9 | ~던데 ~요 ~더~                Recalling experience the speaker saw, heard, felt firsthand ~더라(고요)     Reporting new information the speaker obtained through memory of what s/he saw, heard, or felt firsthand “I saw, heard others ~ing, and learned…” “I…