KOREAN VERB

죽다

to die; of a joke, a monitor or a battery, to be dead

Conjugation

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

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI die
NegativeI don’t die

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI died
NegativeI didn’t die

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

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

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

Form	Polite	Formal
PresentI die (respectfully)
PastI died (respectfully)
FutureI will die (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

이 화분은 물을 안 주면 금방 죽어요.

This plant dies quickly if you don't water it.
Past

회의 중에 노트북 배터리가 죽었어요.

My laptop battery died in the middle of the meeting.
Future

이 추위에 밖에 두면 꽃이 죽을 거예요.

The flowers will die if you leave them out in this cold.
Honorific

할아버지는 제가 열 살 때 돌아가셨어요.

Grandpa passed away when I was ten.
Connectives

휴대폰이 죽어서 지도를 못 봤어요.

My phone died, so I couldn't look at the map.
Requests and commands

제발 죽지 마, 아직 배터리 십 퍼센트 남았잖아.

Please don't die, you've still got ten percent battery.

The honorific is another verb, 돌아가시다, for an elder who has passed away.
배터리가 죽었어요 is a dead battery; 죽겠어요 after a feeling is "I'm dying of it": 배고파 죽겠어요.

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

Fluency Level 1 · 헐, 왼쪽 모니터 죽었어.

Fluency Level 1 · 아, 추워 죽겠어. 손이 얼었어. · 완전 얼어 죽겠다. 사장님은 또 늦네.

Fluency Level 3 · 선생님, 프로젝터가 죽었어요.

The same pattern, on other verbs: verb.