KOREAN VERB

시작하다

to start, to begin

Conjugation

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

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI start
NegativeI don’t start

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI started
NegativeI didn’t start

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

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

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

Form	Polite	Formal
PresentI start (respectfully)
PastI started (respectfully)
FutureI will start (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

수업은 매일 아침 아홉 시에 시작해요.

Class starts every morning at nine.
Past

저는 지난달부터 아침 수영을 시작했어요.

I started morning swims last month.
Future

다음 주에 새 프로젝트를 시작할 거예요.

We'll start a new project next week.
Honorific

할아버지는 일흔에 한국어 공부를 시작하셨어요.

Grandpa started studying Korean at seventy.
Connectives

공사를 시작하니까 밤에 너무 시끄러워요.

Since they started the construction, it's too noisy at night.
Requests and commands

다 모였으니까 이제 회의를 시작하세요.

Everyone's here, so please start the meeting now.

시작하다 starts something (수업을 시작해요); 시작되다 is for a thing that starts by itself (수업이 시작돼요).

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

Intermediate Level 2 · 큰 회사든지 작은 회사든지 시작해.

Advanced Level 1 · 청첩장은 인사로 시작해요.

Advanced Level 1 · 지금부터 결혼식을 시작하겠습니다.

The same pattern, on other verbs: 하다 verb.