Friday, June 28, 2019

How to REALLY say Please in Korean

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Hi my fellow students, we're gonna talk about how to say please in Korean... for real.
I've already talked about how to say please in Korean in my Basic Korean Vocabulary video. In that video I showed you the word 주세요 (ju-se-yo) which means please give it to me. You put this word after the thing you want someone to give you.
eg. icecream ju-se-yo.=please give me icecream.
I also taught you 제발 (je-bal), which is used for when you are begging for something. It's not appropriate for all situations.
Now we're going to learn how to use please when you want people to do something other than give you something.
To do that, first you need to find the verb that you want someone to do.
Get the dictionary form of the verb. (here are 2 examples )(remember the dictionary form is the one that ends in -da) and you cut off the da to get the root verb. then you add 으세요 if your verb root ends in a consonant or just 세요 if your verb root ends in a vowel.
숨다 숨 숨으세요. please hide
if your verb root ends in a vowel
가다 가 가세요 please go
but something special happens when you have a verb root that ends in ㄹ ( the Korean "l" sound) you have to remove the ㄹ and THEN add just 세요(se-yo).
for example
몰다 > 몰 > 모>모세요 please drive
and that is one way to ask someone to please verb.
If you want someone to please verb a noun.. like please drive the car you can add the noun with an object marker in front of the verb
차를 모세요.
and that is one way to make sentences with please.

Here is another:
What you do is take the casual form of the simple present tense of the verb and add 주세요 (ju-se-yo) to the end. Don't know how to make the casual form of the simple present tense? I got a video for that, actually a series of videos. link is in the description.
This type of please sentence has an implied "for me" in it.
For example:
The verb ha-da in the simple present is 해 (hae). Then we add 주세요 (ju-se-yo) and it's 해주세요 (hae-ju-se-yo)
which means: "please do it for me."
If we were to make the other kind of please sentence we would cut off the 다da and add 세요 (se-yo) to get 하세요 (ha-se-yo) which means please do it.
See the difference?
It's like saying "Please cook this ramen" vs "Please cook this ramen for me."
Here are some verbs for you to practice with.
Use them to make both types of please sentences and check your answers in the comments section.
Now let's review:
To say PLEASE VERB cut off the 다(-da) from the infinitive and add 으세요(eu-se-yo) to verb roots that end in consonants and se-yo to verb roots that end in vowels, or if your verb root ends in ㄹ you remove the 다(da) and the ㄹ and add 세요 (se-yo) to the end.

To say PLEASE VERB FOR ME take the casual form of the simple present tense of the verb and add 주세요 (ju-se-yo) to the end.

If you want to say PLEASE VERB THE NOUN, or PLEASE VERB THE NOUN FOR ME. Add the noun with an 을(eul) or 를(reul) object marker in front of that conjugated verb.

And that's all there is to it.
Thanks for studying with me, you guys. annyeonghi gyeseyo. 안녕히계세요
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Had and Was

Hello my fellow students. We've learned all about the past tense in Korean and I wanted to specifically talk about the past tense of two very important verbs it-da to have and i-da to be.
to have is conjugated the usual way cut off the da and add eo-sseo to make the casual form add eo-sseo-yo to make the polite form and add eot-seum-nida to make the formal form and that translates to had.
When we use the past tense of it-da in a sentence we need to use the same kind of subject marking particles we did with the present tense. Please watch my video on it-da in the present tense, if you haven't already. I'm actually rather proud of it. but like I was saying use the same kind of subject marking particles as we used with the present tense.
The subject gets a neun/eun, and the object gets an i/ga
for example I had a computer in the casual form would be
나는 컴퓨터가 있었어.
in the polite form it would be
저는 컴퓨터가 있었어요. and in the formal form
저는 컴퓨터가 있습니다.
and that's what you need to know about had.

Now i-da to be is conjugated irregularly in the present tense, but in the past tense it is conjugated pretty much like normal. cut off the da and add eo-sseo to make the casual form add eo-sseo-yo to make the polite form and add eot-seum-nida to make the formal form. and then the vowels combine so that the i-eo turns into yeo like so:  였어, 였어요, 였습니다
One thing about i-da is that sometimes when you add the ending you can chose not to combine the vowels. and keep it as 이었어,이었어요,이었습니다 if you wish. and in fact all your verb roots that end in i can be spelled without the combining vowels.
But the combined way is more commonly used. That is what I will always use on this channel
마시었어요 마셨어요
달리었어요 달렸어요
즐기었어요 즐겼어요
소리치었어요 소리쳤어요

when you make sentences with the past tense of i-da you do not use any object marker, and you do not put a space between your object and the verb. This is the same rules as we learned for i-da in the present tense. Here's an example of a past tense sentence with i-da.
나는 댄서였어.
저는 댄서였어요.
저는 댄서였습니다.

So not too many big surprises with it-da and i-da in their past form. But had and was. are two very important words and these verbs don't always follow conventional rules so I wanted to take out all the guess work for you.
Thanks for studying with me everyone annyeonghi gyeseyo.