KOREAN VERB

공부하다

to study

Conjugation

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

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI study
NegativeI don’t study

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI studied
NegativeI didn’t study

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

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

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

Form	Polite	Formal
PresentI study (respectfully)
PastI studied (respectfully)
FutureI will study (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

저는 매일 밤 한 시간씩 한국어를 공부해요.

I study Korean for an hour every night.
Past

저는 대학교에서 영어하고 일본어를 공부했어요.

At university I studied English and Japanese.
Future

이번 주말에는 도서관에서 공부할 거예요.

This weekend I'll study at the library.
Honorific

할머니께서는 젊을 때 부산에서 공부하셨어요.

Grandma studied in Busan when she was young.
Connectives

열심히 공부했지만 시험이 정말 어려웠어요.

I studied hard, but the exam was really difficult.
Requests and commands

민준아, 게임은 그만하고 이제 공부해.

Min-jun, stop playing games and study now.