KOREAN VERB

빚다

to shape (dough, rice cakes, dumplings)

Conjugation

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현재 · now and habits: polite, formal and casual speech

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI shape
NegativeI don’t shape

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI shaped
NegativeI didn’t shape

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI will shape
NegativeI won’t shape

높임말 · to or about an elder: the -시- forms

Form	Polite	Formal
PresentI shape (respectfully)
PastI shaped (respectfully)
FutureI will shape (respectfully)

연결 어미 · and, so, if, because, but: joining two sentences

명령형 · -(으)세요, -(으)십시오, the casual form, -지 마세요

One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.

Present

설날 아침에 온 가족이 만두를 빚어요.

On New Year's morning the whole family makes dumplings.
Past

추석에 송편을 백 개나 빚었어요.

At Chuseok we shaped a hundred songpyeon.
Future

이번 주말에는 직접 막걸리를 빚을 거예요.

This weekend I'll brew makgeolli myself.
Honorific

할머니는 송편을 저보다 세 배 빨리 빚으세요.

Grandma shapes songpyeon three times faster than I do.
Connectives

만두를 예쁘게 빚으면 예쁜 딸을 낳는대요.

They say if you make pretty dumplings, you'll have a pretty daughter.
Requests and commands

반죽은 얇게, 속은 넉넉하게 빚으세요.

Make the dough thin and the filling generous.

빚다 is shaping with the hands: 만두를 빚다, 송편을 빚다; 술을 빚다 is to brew. 빚 on its own is the noun for a debt.

The lessons that teach a form of it, and how they say it.

Fluency Level 2 · 솔잎 깔고, 밤만 하게 빚어. · 일라이 씨, 빚는 둥 마는 둥 하네요.

The same pattern, on other verbs: verb.