It’s a holiday weekend. All sun and clear blue skies. July 4th — that means grilling outdoors, fireworks, and pilsner. Good times with family and friends. And you. You, sitting there at your computer screen. You, wondering why you’re even wasting your time at a site called YouSuckAtKorean. You want to know about irregular verbs? …
Don’t panic, but there are seven types of irregular verbs in Korean. The ‘ㅅ’ irregular verb is one of them. If you’re a beginner who’s only now coming to grips with converting verbs to their -어요 form, then this is probably overwhelming news. You may want to sit down for this. Drink a tall glass …
Think Korean grammar is confusing yet? Just wait. Here’s one of my favorite grammar patterns — Vst + 거든. What does it mean? Well, that depends. Because the pattern 거든 has two very different meanings, one completely unrelated to the other. Luckily for us, when listening to or reading Korean we can easily tell the …
There are lots of grammatical patterns in Korean, and a lot of them show how one event follows another. For instance: -어서, -고, -자, -자마자, -고 나서, etc. Well 다가 pretty much does the same thing, but with a twist. You see, 다가 is used when the first action is either interrupted or completed before …
Today I’m going to try and explain the conjunctions 자 and 자마자. These are sometimes translated as “after”, “right after”, and “as soon as”. One important thing to remember here is that they connect two clauses — one which happens after the other. But, unlike the patterns -고, -어서, and -고 나서, the patterns 자 …
So here’s the deal. I’m going to teach you how to use the infix 겠 to indicate the future tense or intention. But there’s something you need to remember. Textbooks lie to you. And so does the title of this post. Textbooks are fond of presenting grammar patterns with headers like this: Using -겠 to …
I’m going to make a wild assumption here. Although you suck at Korean, I’m guessing that you have read at least one chapter of a Korean textbook, or sat through a couple classes, or listened to a few podcasts. If you’ve done any studying on your own, then I’m pretty sure you’ve been introduced to …