Korean Grammar - Present Tense(ํ์ฌ ์์ )
Hi! ์๋
ํ์ธ์. This is Admin Na. And today Iโm going to talk about the present tense.
What is the present tense?
The present tense is a tense that coincides with the time when the event occurs.
Pre-final ending โ-ใด-/-๋-โ:ย
Expresses the current tense in combination with verbs.
I play basketball with my friends.: ๋๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ๋๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค.
A sleeping baby: ์ ์ ์๋ ์๊ธฐ
He was proud of his father, a doctor.: ๊ทธ๋ ์์ฌ์ธ ์๋ฒ์ง๋ฅผ ์๋์ค๋ฌ์ํ๋ค.
Sunwoo drinks water.: ์ ์ฐ๋ ๋ฌผ์ ๋ง์ ๋ค.
Sung Eun is eating.: ์ฑ์์ด๊ฐ ๋ฐฅ์ ๋จน๋๋ค.
In adjectives or descriptive postposition, the current tense can be expressed without a pre-final ending.
The weather is hot today.: ์ค๋์ ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ๋ฅ๋ค.
My brother is a college student.: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ ๋ํ์์ด๋ค.
A modifier form ending โ-๋โ:ย
Expresses the current tense in combination with verbs.
I am looking at my brother who is eating.: ๋ฐฅ์ ๋จน๋ ๋์์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ค.
The cup rice that Jimin eats is really delicious.: ์ง๋ฏผ์ด๊ฐ ๋จน๋ ์ปต๋ฐฅ์ ์ ๋ง ๋ง์๋ค.
I'm studying for the exam.: ์ํ๊ณต๋ถ ํ๋ ๋.
A modifier form ending โ-(์ผ)ใดโ:ย
To express the present tense in combination with adjectives or narrative ending.
I feel good when I see pretty flowers.: ์์ ๊ฝ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ์ข๋ค.
Pretty Jimin is coming to the academy.: ์์ ์ง๋ฏผ์ด๊ฐ ํ์์ ์จ๋ค.
Minji is a pretty child.: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์์ ์์ด์ด๋ค.
Time adverbs representing the present:ย
โ์ค๋โ, โ์ง๊ธโ etc.
I read a book in the library now.: ๋๋ ์ง๊ธ ๋์๊ด์์ ์ฑ
์ ์ฝ๋๋ค.
Jonghee studies hard today.: ์ข
ํฌ๋ ์ค๋๋ ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค.
It's windy now.: ์ง๊ธ ๋ฐ๋์ด ๋ถ๋ค.
The train is leaving now.: ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ฐ ์ง๊ธ ์ถ๋ฐํ๋ค.
1. What is the present tense?
A: The present tense is a tense that coincides with the time when the event occurs.
2. Write an example that includes the pre-final ending โ-ใด-/-๋-โ
A: I play basketball with my friends. etc(you can make tons of them!)
3. In adjectives or descriptive postposition, can the current tense be expressed without a pre-final ending?
Thank you all for reading this post! I really hope this was helpful for you, and also, there is a previous post of ours introducing the pre-final ending(which would help you understand the Korean present tense more easily)! So if youโre interested, I think you should check it out! Always stay safe:D Jojal-jojal Korea is always pulling for you!!