Korean Future Tense - Part 4

THIS IS A VERY ROUGH DRAFT. IT CONTAINS MANY MISTAKES

Hi fellow students, it is time for my fourth lesson on the Korean future tense. You're probably realizing by now that there are many ways to make the Korean future tense. But fear not, fellow students, because in this lesson you will see that you don't actually need to make the future tense at all if you don't want to. Yes, you see, in Korean, you can make the future tense by making a statement in the present tense and then putting a future time in front of it. 

For example. "I cook." 저는 요리해요. (jeo-nuen yo-ri hae-yo.) That is a present tense statement. but then I put the word "tomorrow" in front of it: 

"Tomorrow I cook." = 내일 저는 요리해요. (nae-il jeo-neun yori-hae-yo.)

 Now it means "Tomorrow I will cook." This is a future tense statement even though I didn't do any conjugating at all. I just slapped the word tomorrow in front of the simple present and abra cadabra it is the future.

We're not gonna go over how to make the present tense but take a look at my charts here:

So, assuming you know how to make the present tense the only other thing I have to teach you is the word tomorrow: 내일 (nae-il), but we can replace that word with other words that indicate a future time, like "at 5:00", "on Wednesday", "in September", or "soon", "later", "next week", "next month", "next year".

Let's learn that.

We did already learn to tell time.

 Use the Native numbering system for hours and add "Shi"

"At 5:00" is 다섯시에 (da-seot-shi-e).   에 (e) means "at"

For our example "At 5:00 I will cook"

 다섯 시에 저는 요리해요. 

And use the sino Korean numbering system for the minutes and add 분(bun). At 5:30 I will cook. 

다섯 시 삼십분에  저는 요리해요. 

and you can say "In the morning I will cook" 오전에 저는 요리해요

"In the afternoon I will cook," 오후에 저는 요리해요

"Tonight I will cook" 이밤에 저는 요리해요

You could also indicate future using the days of the week. Do you remember those? wol-yo-il, hwa yo-il etc

Mon 월요일

Tues 화요일

Wed 수요일

Thur 목요일

Fri 금요일

Sat 토요일

Sun 일요일

then you add 에(e) at the end because 에(e) means "on" that's right! 에(e) can mean "at", "on" and "in". Kind of like the French word "à"

월요일에 저는 요리해요. wol-yo-il-e jeo-neun yo-ri-hae-yo

And finally, let's review months. Remember monthes are Sino korean numbers with the word 월(wol) at the end

일월

이월

삼월

사월

오월

유월

칠월

팔월

구월

시월

십일월

십이월

 then we and "e" to the end to make it say In January, In February etc

In January I will cook

일월에 저는 요리해요.

and there are more words soon is 곧(got), 곧, 저는 요리해요. later is 후에(hu-e) 후에, 저는 요리해요.

"next week" da-eum-ju and "next month" da-eum dal. 

da-eum means next. and next week is all one word. To say 'next Monday' you would say 'next week Monday' 다음주 월요일 

Then there is next year

nae-nyeon-e

this one does not have a da-eum. year is different because of the influence of Chinese on the Korean language

내년에, 저는 요리해요. 

And there is your chart of words that indicate a future time. And for some of them we need to add "e". 

Now, the whole point of this video has been to say that you can add these words to the beginning of your present tense sentences to make them future tense. But you can also put them in future tense sentences to be more specific.

곧, 저는 요리할거예요.

곧, 저는 요리하겠어요.

곧, 저는 요리할 게요.

You can see here these future tense sentences don't just say "I will cook", they say "soon I will cook", because I added "got" to the beginning.

You can also put the time-related word in the middle and it is still perfect grammar.