Conjugating ha-da Verbs into the Present Tense.

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This is a lesson on conjugating 하다 (ha-da) verbs to the present tense. A 하다 (ha-da) verb is any verb whose infinitive form ends 하다 (ha-da). Remember, an infinitive form of a verb is one that translates as "to verb". 

하다 (Ha-da) is a verb in itself. It means "to do".

Often what you will find with 하다 (ha-da) verbs is that they are made up of a noun and the 하다 (ha-da) ending. For example:

"To swim" is:

수영하다

It is made up of 하다 (ha-da), which means "to do",

and 수영 (su-yeong) which means "swimming".

So, put it together and it's "to do swimming", or "to swim".

You can also see the 하다 (ha-da) ending added to English words to make them more Koreanized like "to download":

다운로드하다

or "to interview":

인터뷰하다.

There are lots of 하다 (ha-da) verbs and the great thing about them is they are all conjugated the same way.

So lets learn 'em.

Like I said 하다 (ha-da) is itself a verb. So, we'll use that as the example.

Remember when we learned (a) verbs and (eo) verbs the first thing we did was cut off the 다(-da) ending to get the root verb. We're gonna do that here too:

ha 하

Then for the casual version we will change the (a) to an (ae):

hae 해

For the polite form we add 요(yo) to the casual form:

hae-yo 해요

and for the formal form we add m-ni-da ㅂ니다 to the root verb:

ham-ni-da 합니다.

There we go. All done. These are the present tense endings you will use for any ha-da verb you encounter.

hae 해
hae-yo 해요
ham-ni-da 합니다

Here is a short list of ha-da verbs. You can practice conjugating as many of them as you like. and memorizing as many as you like. Conjugated forms are in the comments section if you want to check your answers.

And remember in Korean you don't have to change your verb when you speak in the third person like we do in English. Like where we say: I do, the man does. We usually make our verbs plural when we speak in the third person. But Korean doesn't do this. Use these same words regardless of whether you are speaking in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person.

Now I'm gonna go over how to make (ha-da) verbs into sentences. I covered this twice already in the (a) verb and (eo) verb videos. So, if you don't need a reminder then the lesson is over for you thanks for studying with me.
For the rest of you lets start making the sentence

"I do"

in the casual form:

na hae 나 해

in the polite form:

jeo hae-yo 저 해요

in the formal form:

jeo ham-ni-da 저 합니다

Now we can say it this way... and because it's such a short sentence everyone will know what we mean. But, we can also add subject markers. Subject markers are attached to the end of the subject of the sentence. That is: the noun which is performing the action. There are 2 types: 

the 는/은 (neun/eun) type: which puts the emphasis on the action 
and 
the 가/이 (ga/-i) type: which puts the emphasis on the subject. 

-i or -eun are meant to go at the end of words that end in consonants and -ga and -neun are meant to go at the end of words that end in vowels. Let me demonstrate with the example "I do". In English we don't have subject markers so if you want to emphasize the action in your sentence you do so by saying the action louder.

"I do"

in Korean you emphasize the action by adding an eun or neun subject marker

"I-neun do" 
uhh 
na-neun hae 나는 해
jeo-neun hae-yo 저는 해요
jeo-neun hamnida 저는 합니다

Sometimes people will use a shorthand for eun/neun. The shorthand is just (-n). So if you want to use the shorthand to emphasize the action you would say: 
nan hae 난 해
jeon hae-yo 전 해요 
jeon ham-ni-da 전 합니다

and in English if you want to emphasize the subject you say that louder

"I do"

in Korean you emphasize the subject by adding the ga/i subject marker.

"I-ga do"

and something funny happens with these 3 pronouns when you want to use the ga/i subject marker. You first add the i and then the ga, and the i combines with the vowel at the end of the pronoun to make a new sound. so to say "I do" in Korean you say:

nae-ga hae 내가 해

je-ga hae-yo 제가 해요

and je-ga ham-ni-da 제가 합니다.

and the third pronoun neo 너 is the casual way of saying you and it also gets both the i and the ga

ne-ga 네가

It looks like it would be pronounced nega but that sounds really close to casual I (naega) so instead it is pronounced in a surprising and unexpected way "ni-ga". Despite what it might sound like that is how you say you with the ga/i subject marker.

 and remember it is only these 3 pronouns which get both the i and the ga. For all other nouns and pronouns add only (-ga) if you noun ends in a vowel, or add only (-i) if your noun ends in a consonant. Why are na, jeo and neo different? Well... there's no GOOD reason for it. It's something that started a long, long time ago and has just kind of persisted.

Now moving on, What's great about Korean is that you don't have to conjugate your verb as you switch from first person to 2nd person to 3rd person like we do in English. You know how we say "I do", "the woman does". We change our verbs but Korean does not. We can use the same 3 versions of "do" no matter whether we are speaking in the 1st person 2nd person 3rd person, singular or plural. So convenient.

Subject markers can be tricky for some people. This the third time I've explained it and I will probably explain it again. So, don't give up if you are having a difficult time with this concept. It's not an easy one. And if you do understand it, then it is important to be reminded. Again, practice your conjugation with my list of ha-da verbs, take advantage of the links in the description, stay peaceful, and thank you for studying with me.

WATCH THE LESSON HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qQvm-K08Rc