A2 ยท ElementaryUnit 7: My Life

โชKorean Past Tense

I went, I ate, I saw โ€” talking about yesterday

30 words ยท ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Korean๐Ÿ“ Grammar: simple past/preterite

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Vocabulary โ€” 30 words

-์•˜/์—ˆ์–ด์š”

past tense (polite)

phraseโ–ผ
-(์œผ)ใ„ด ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค

have done ~ (experience)

phraseโ–ผ
์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ

last week

nounโ–ผ
์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ

last month

nounโ–ผ
์ž‘๋…„

last year

nounโ–ผ
-์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์–ด์š”

did not (past negative)

phraseโ–ผ
๋ฒŒ์จ

already

advโ–ผ
์•„์ง

not yet / still

advโ–ผ
์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ

for the first time

advโ–ผ
-์•„/์–ด ๋ณด๋‹ค

to try doing ~

phraseโ–ผ
๊ทธ์ €๊ป˜

the day before yesterday

nounโ–ผ
์–ผ๋งˆ ์ „์—

some time ago

advโ–ผ
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ

just now

advโ–ผ
์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ „

a moment ago

advโ–ผ
์•„๊นŒ

earlier / a while ago

advโ–ผ
ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ

once / one time

phraseโ–ผ
์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒˆ

several times

phraseโ–ผ
-(์œผ)ใ„ด ์ ์ด ์—†๋‹ค

have never done ~

phraseโ–ผ
์ถ”์–ต

memory / memories

nounโ–ผ
๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚˜๋‹ค

to remember / to recall

verbโ–ผ
์žŠ๋‹ค

to forget

verbโ–ผ
~๊ธฐ ์ „์—

before doing ~

phraseโ–ผ
~(์œผ)ใ„ด ํ›„์—

after doing ~

phraseโ–ผ
๊ทธ๋žฌ์–ด์š”

that was so / yes, that happened

phraseโ–ผ
๊ทธ๋žฌ๊ตฌ๋‚˜

I see / oh, really

phraseโ–ผ
๊ฐ”์—ˆ์–ด์š”

had gone / went (and came back)

verbโ–ผ
๋ดค์–ด์š”

saw / watched

verbโ–ผ
๋งŒ๋‚ฌ์–ด์š”

met

verbโ–ผ
ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”

did

verbโ–ผ
๋จน์—ˆ์–ด์š”

ate

verbโ–ผ
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