KOREAN VERB

잡아먹다

to catch and eat, to eat up (of a tiger, a cat; of a task, one's time)

Conjugation

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

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI catch and eat
NegativeI don’t catch and eat

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI caught and eat
NegativeI didn’t catch and eat

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI will catch and eat
NegativeI won’t catch and eat

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

Form	Polite	Formal
PresentI catch and eat (respectfully)
PastI caught and eat (respectfully)
FutureI will catch and eat (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

우리 고양이는 가끔 파리를 잡아먹어요.

Our cat sometimes catches and eats flies.
Past

이 보고서가 제 주말을 다 잡아먹었어요.

This report ate up my whole weekend.
Future

그 앱은 배터리를 많이 잡아먹을 거예요.

That app will eat up a lot of battery.
Honorific

부장님이 회의로 오후를 다 잡아먹으셨어요.

The manager ate up the whole afternoon with meetings.
Connectives

광고가 시간을 잡아먹어서 영상을 껐어요.

The ads ate up my time, so I turned the video off.
Requests and commands

호랑이야, 떡 줄게, 나 잡아먹지 마!

Tiger, I'll give you a rice cake, don't eat me!

Literally to catch and eat, a cat and a mouse; of a job or an app it is eating up time or battery: 시간을 잡아먹어요.

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

Fluency Level 2 · 잡아먹는대요, 튼튼하냬요, 올라가재요.

The same pattern, on other verbs: verb.