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KOREAN VERB

다니다

to go around, to go regularly (to a school, a job, a club); to carry about

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Conjugation

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Present

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

Form Polite Formal Casual
AffirmativeI go around
NegativeI don’t go around

Past

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form Polite Formal Casual
AffirmativeI went around
NegativeI didn’t go around

Future

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

Form Polite Formal Casual
AffirmativeI will go around
NegativeI won’t go around

Honorific

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

Form Polite Formal
PresentI go around (respectfully)
PastI went around (respectfully)
FutureI will go around (respectfully)

Connectives

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

  1. And (-고) going around, and…, and…
  2. So, and then (-아/어서) going around, and…, so…
  3. If, when (-(으)면) if I go around
  4. Because (-(으)니까) because I go around
  5. But (-지만) I go around, but…

Requests and commands

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

  1. Please (-(으)세요) please go around
  2. Formal request (-(으)십시오) please go around (formal)
  3. Plain command go around! (casual)
  4. Please don’t please don’t go around

How to use 다니다

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

  1. Present

    저는 집 근처 수영장에 일주일에 세 번 다녀요.

    I go to the pool near my house three times a week.

  2. Past

    수아는 삼 년 동안 같은 회사에 다녔어요.

    Su-a worked at the same company for three years.

  3. Future

    내년부터 아이가 유치원에 다닐 거예요.

    From next year my child will go to kindergarten.

  4. Honorific

    할머니는 아직도 매주 노래 교실에 다니세요.

    Grandma still goes to singing class every week.

  5. Connectives

    우산을 가지고 다니면 비 올 때 편해요.

    If you carry an umbrella around, it's handy when it rains.

  6. Requests and commands

    밤늦게는 가로등 있는 큰길로만 다니세요.

    Late at night, go only along main roads with streetlights.

Good to know

  • 다니다 is the verb for going somewhere regularly: 회사에 다니다 is to have a job there, 학교에 다니다 to be a student. 가지고 다니다 is to carry about.

Where you hear 다니다

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

Korean · Fluency Level 2

  • 토요일마다 도서관 모임에 다녀요. Every Saturday I go to the library club.
  • 사십 년 동안 우체국에 다녔어요. I went to work at the post office for forty years.
  • 하은이는 내년에 어린이집에 다닐 거예요. Next year Ha-eun will go to nursery.

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The same pattern, on other verbs: verb.