Final Conjugation Map

Throughout this course, you have built forms by identifying a stem and combining it with the endings learned here. The final map includes basic 해요-style forms in present contexts, past forms, basic future expressions, conditions, connections, and polite requests.

Read the map in both directions: dictionary form → stem → conjugated form , and a learned conjugated form → likely stem → dictionary form . This applies to the regular patterns, contractions, and ㅡ deletion studied in this course. Forms outside those patterns may require separate analysis.

Vowel-final stems do not all combine in one way. First check the target ending. Direct-attachment endings such as -고 and -지만 attach without a vowel or batchim choice, while -아요/-어요 and -았어요/-었어요 may contract with a vowel-final stem.

보다: 보- + -아요 → 보아요 → 봐요

보다: 보- + -았어요 → 보았어요 → 봤어요

마시다: 마시- + -어요 → 마시어요 → 마셔요

마시다: 마시- + -었어요 → 마시었어요 → 마셨어요

These contractions are part of ordinary pronunciation and spelling rather than optional changes made only for smoother speech.

A regular consonant-final stem does not use one universal attachment rule. First check what the target ending requires.

The stem 먹- combines directly with -고 and -지만 : 먹고 and 먹지만 .

For the basic 해요-style form, the last vowel ㅓ selects -어요 : 먹어요 .

For endings whose form depends on the stem ending, the non-ㄹ consonant-final stem 먹- selects -으면 , -으세요 , and -을 거예요 : 먹으면 , 먹으세요 , and 먹을 거예요 .

The 으 and 을 belong to the selected ending forms. They are not pronunciation cushions added freely.

Regular verbs and adjectives share many of the form-building principles reviewed in this course.

예쁘다: 예쁘- + -어요 → 예뻐요