KOREAN VERB

만수무강하다

to live long and well (the four-syllable wish said to an elder)

Conjugation

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

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI live long and well
NegativeI don’t live long and well

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI lived long and well
NegativeI didn’t live long and well

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI will live long and well
NegativeI won’t live long and well

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

Form	Polite	Formal
PresentI live long and well (respectfully)
PastI lived long and well (respectfully)
FutureI will live long and well (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

욕심을 버리면 누구나 만수무강해요.

Let go of greed and anyone lives long and well.
Past

그 마을 어른들은 대부분 구십까지 만수무강했어요.

Most of that village's elders lived long and well into their nineties.
Future

이렇게 매일 걸으면 만수무강할 거예요.

If you walk every day like this, you'll live long and well.
Honorific

증조할머니는 백두 살까지 만수무강하셨어요.

Great-grandma lived long and well, to a hundred and two.
Connectives

부모님이 만수무강하시면 저는 더 바랄 게 없어요.

If my parents live long and well, I have nothing more to wish for.
Requests and commands

할머니, 생신 축하드려요. 만수무강하세요.

Grandma, happy birthday. May you live long and well.

만수무강 is four Chinese characters, "ten thousand years, no limit": 만수무강하세요 is said to grandparents on a birthday or at New Year, never to a friend.

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

할머니, 만수무강하세요. Grandma, a long and healthy life to you.
작년 생신에도 다들 만수무강하시라고 했어요. At last year's birthday too, everyone wished her a long and healthy life.
내일 잔치에서 하은이도 만수무강하세요 할 거예요. At the party tomorrow Ha-eun will say it too: a long and healthy life to you.

Fluency Level 3 · 만수무강하세요. 네 글자, 천천히요.

The same pattern, on other verbs: 하다 verb.