Conjugating ha-da Verbs to the Simple 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
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.
Stay peaceful, and thank you for studying with me.
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