개학하다 (to start the school term, to go back to school) · Korean verb conjugation

Conjugation

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

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI start the school term
NegativeI don’t start the school term

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI started the school term
NegativeI didn’t start the school term

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI will start the school term
NegativeI won’t start the school term

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

Form	Polite	Formal
PresentI start the school term (respectfully)
PastI started the school term (respectfully)
FutureI will start the school term (respectfully)

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

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

Present

한국 학교는 보통 삼월에 개학해요.

Korean schools usually start the term in March.
Past

우리 학교는 지난주 월요일에 개학했어요.

Our school went back last Monday.
Future

구월 첫째 주에 개학할 거예요.

School will start back in the first week of September.
Honorific

선생님, 학교는 언제 개학하세요?

Teacher, when does your school start back?
Connectives

개학하면 다시 일찍 일어나야 해요.

When school starts back, I have to get up early again.

The school is what 개학해요; a student says 학교가 개학했어요 or 개학이에요. 방학 is the vacation before it.

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

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Beginner Level 3 · 개학하기 전에 돌아오세요. · 네. 개학하기 전에 돌아오겠습니다.

The same pattern, on other verbs: 하다 verb.