어렵다 (to be hard, difficult) · Korean verb conjugation

Conjugation

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

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI am hard
NegativeI am not hard

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI was hard
NegativeI was not hard

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI will be hard
NegativeI won’t be hard

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

Form	Polite	Formal
PresentI am hard (respectfully)
PastI was hard (respectfully)
FutureI will be hard (respectfully)

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

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

Present

한국어 발음은 저한테 아직 어려워요.

Korean pronunciation is still hard for me.
Past

오늘 수학 시험은 생각보다 어려웠어요.

Today's maths exam was harder than I expected.
Future

이 책은 초등학생한테는 좀 어려울 거예요.

This book will be a bit hard for primary school children.
Honorific

할머니는 스마트폰이 아직 어려우세요.

Grandma still finds smartphones hard.
Connectives

한국어는 어렵지만 매일 조금씩 연습해요.

Korean is hard, but I practise a little every day.

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

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Intermediate Level 1 · 영어는 한국말보다 훨씬 어려워요.

Fluency Level 3 · 두 달 안에? 드라이아이스야. 어려워.

The same pattern, on other verbs: descriptive verb.