KOREAN VERB

시집오다

to come as a bride, to marry into a family (of a woman)

Conjugation

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

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI come as a bride
NegativeI don’t come as a bride

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI came as a bride
NegativeI didn’t come as a bride

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

Form	Polite	Formal	Casual
AffirmativeI will come as a bride
NegativeI won’t come as a bride

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

Form	Polite	Formal
PresentI come as a bride (respectfully)
PastI came as a bride (respectfully)
FutureI will come as a bride (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 마을에는 해마다 몇 명이 시집와요.

A few women marry into this village every year.
Past

큰이모는 서른에 부산으로 시집왔어요.

My eldest aunt married into a Busan family at thirty.
Future

사촌 언니가 내년 봄에 서울로 시집올 거예요.

My cousin will marry into a Seoul family next spring.
Honorific

할머니는 열아홉에 이 집에 시집오셨어요.

Grandma came to this house as a bride at nineteen.
Connectives

외국에서 시집와서 처음에는 말이 안 통했어요.

She came as a bride from abroad, so at first she couldn't make herself understood.
Requests and commands

우리 집으로 시집와. 잘해 줄게.

Come and marry into our family. I'll be good to you.

시집오다 is said from the groom's family, she came to us; 시집가다 from the bride's, she went off; a man marries with 장가가다, and both with 결혼하다.

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

Fluency Level 3 · 할머니는 칠십 년 전에 시집오셨어.

The same pattern, on other verbs: verb.