KOREAN VERB

내려가다

to go down

Conjugation

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

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI go down
NegativeI don’t go down

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI went down
NegativeI didn’t go down

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI will go down
NegativeI won’t go down

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

Form	Polite	Formal
PresentI go down (respectfully)
PastI went down (respectfully)
FutureI will go down (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 계단으로 일 층에 내려가요.

Every day I go down to the first floor by the stairs.
Past

주말에 부모님 뵈러 대구에 내려갔어요.

On the weekend I went down to Daegu to see my parents.
Future

잠깐 일층 편의점에 내려갈 거예요.

I'll go down to the convenience store on the first floor for a moment.
Honorific

할머니는 매일 아침 마당에 내려가세요.

Grandma goes down to the yard every morning.
Connectives

지하로 내려가면 식당이 많이 있어요.

If you go down to the basement, there are lots of restaurants.
Requests and commands

오늘은 엘리베이터 말고 계단으로 내려가세요.

Today take the stairs down, not the elevator.

내려가다 is going down away from you, 내려오다 coming down toward you; leaving Seoul for the countryside is also 내려가다.

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

Fluency Level 3 · 다들 내려갈 거예요. 민준이가 찍는대요.

Fluency Level 3 · 맞아. 넌 내려가고 할머니는 올라가.

The same pattern, on other verbs: verb.