KOREAN VERB

경험하다

to experience

Conjugation

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

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI experience
NegativeI don’t experience

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI experienced
NegativeI didn’t experience

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

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

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

Form	Polite	Formal
PresentI experience (respectfully)
PastI experienced (respectfully)
FutureI will experience (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 여행하면서 다른 문화를 직접 경험해요.

While travelling, I experience other cultures first-hand.
Past

한국에서 처음으로 긴 장마를 경험했어요.

In Korea I experienced a long monsoon season for the first time.
Future

이번 인턴십에서 많은 걸 경험할 거예요.

I'll experience a lot in this internship.
Honorific

할아버지는 전쟁과 가난을 모두 경험하셨어요.

Grandpa experienced both war and poverty.
Connectives

직접 경험하면 책보다 훨씬 잘 이해돼요.

If you experience it yourself, you understand far better than from books.
Requests and commands

젊을 때 많이 경험하세요, 다 도움이 돼요.

Experience a lot while you're young; it all helps.

경험 is the noun: 경험이 있다/없다 is to have or not have experience, 경험자 someone experienced; 겪다 is to go through something hard.

The same pattern, on other verbs: 하다 verb.