Past tense in Korean but present tense in English?

While learning Korean, you might have encountered some words and phrases that seem to be in a different tense from its translation in English. Hyunwoo will explain why that is.
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It's actually quite easy. The example verbs, when used, already happened in the past, so you use past tense. 잘생기다, for example, doesn't mean handsome. It means to be well-formed. So, you are actually saying you were formed well (handsome) when you say it. The act you did that was wrong already happened so you use 틀렸어. And so on.

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I think the easiest way to explain it is that when it is an adjective in korean it is conjugative in past tense which is kinda similar in some english words such as well-mannered, educated and etc.

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In case of last two examples of 'past tense + future tense', i could relate it with my native language rather than English. In my language too we often say something in past tense to show we are going to do it first in order to the next thing

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감사합니다 선생님!!! "잘생기다" 단어에 대한 선생님의 설명에 따르면 이제 제 한국 친구들한테 아이콘의 바비가 진짜 잘생겼다고 말할 수 있네요! 💖💖💖 제 한국 친구들은 항상 바비가 못생겼다고 말하고 있으니까. ㅠㅠ

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All this process is so logic! Korean is a very logic language!

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우와... 이 동영상 너무 재미있는 것 같아요. Hopefully it was used right haha well... i dont use ~을/은/는 것 같다 often so hopefully it was.

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hahaha well I laughed so hard when I watched the first part of the video... I was expecting you to read a comment which is asking about korean but then.... hahaha I didn't expect that XD and of course you look handsomeee!!!! 잘생겼어요!!!!!!!

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From now on I will use "you came into existence well" as a compliment.

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Dan somebody explain more further about 을 것 같다 and 는 것 같다. Thanks!!

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재미있어요.

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갔다올게요 is completely similar when we say it in our mothertongue :)

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We can shorhorn English into using past tense for present conditions which may make it it easier to understand why it's done this way in Korean: "He was handsomized". We would understand that, but it would be strange way to say it.

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For the past tense, it’s similar to verbs used in the past in Berber! It’s difficult to explain why!!! Though in Arabic there is a similar thing when using Acting Noun or past tense to mean the present or a state!

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여기 없을 것 같아요 can be translated using future tense in my language and it would make perfect sense! 😀

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SUch a great video! Just that one word, "result" helped me to understand the whole concept and approach to those adjective verbs. I totally agree that the practical approach is the most effective in terms of language learning. To me learning a language is about understanding the language's logic and the way people think when speaking it, rather than memorising words like a robot. Once you understand the logic of a certain grammar point, you can even get to learn new grammar without needing to read long grammar explanations, because you've created that "mind map" Hyunwoo mentionned. You'll never fail teaching us Korean, thank you TTMIK teachers!

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안녕하세요 성새님.저는 라전 입니다.네팔에서 사라요.당신의 설명을 정말 좋아해요.제가 잘 아라요.많이 감사합니다

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사라요 -> 살아요, 아라요 -> 알아요 😍

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감사합니다 선생님👌😍 Im just wondering if how to say someone is ugly in conjugated way, probably you can't have 요 there. It's contrasting the thought, respecting someone while saying his/her ugly hehehe

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Basically there is a big difference between translation and interpretation.

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I've been looking for a video explaining how it works when there are multiple conjugated verbs in one sentence like in 여기 없은 것 같아요 : the 없은 transform into 없는 bc it's in a different time. If someone knows a good video on that topic I'm all ears :)