KOREAN FUTURE TENSE

Here’s another essential grammar lesson for you to learn early: the Korean Future Tense.

If you haven’t already, have a look at these lessons:

• Korean Present Tense
• Korean Past Tense

INTRODUCTION

When you talk about your plans or something that might happen in the future, you should use the future tense. There are several rules according to each case.

The future tense is a bit easier compared to the present and past tense in the sense that the conjugation will depend if the last letter of the verb is a vowel or consonant.

We’ll explain how to conjugate each type of verbs in more details further down below.

• Case 1 || Verbs ending with a vowel (-ㄹ거예요)
• Case 2 || Verbs ending with a consonant (-을 거예요)

Let’s take a look:

CASE 1 || Conjugation Examples

CASE 2 || Conjugation Examples

CASE 1 || VERBS ENDING WITH A VOWEL

When the word stem ends in a vowel, we add -ㄹ거예요.

For example, the word stem of 가다 would be 가-. 

Then you can combine 가- with -ㄹ거예요, and it would be 갈 거예요.

NOTE || Please go to “Introduction” for more examples for case 1!

CASE 2 || VERBS ENDING WITH A CONSONANT

When the word stem ends in a consonant, we add -을 거예요. 

For example, the word stem of 닫다 would be 닫-.

Then you can combine 닫- with -을 거예요, and it would be 닫을 거예요.

When the word stem particularly ends in a consonant ‘ㄹ’, we just add ‘-거예요’. 

For example, the word stem of 만들다 would be ‘만들-’.

Then you can combine ‘만들-’ with ‘-거예요’, and it would be ‘만들 거예요’.

NOTE || Please go to “Introduction” for more examples for case 2!

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• Possessive Particle 의

  Noun + 의

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• Present Tense

  Verb + 아요

• Past Tense

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