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More advanced korean grammar - travelling Lesson

By Learn Korean Admin - 02/10/2023

More korean grammar to help when travelling

You will at some point in Korean have to make travel plans, be it by train, plane or autmobile you may have to ask for tickets and choose seats for those tickets.
Here are some useful tips to help you form sentences, we will also include some conversation text to put them into more context.

Before and after

In korean there are word nouns for before chon and after hu. When used in a sentence they can form the following such as chu'ulbal shigan jon-e which means "before the time of departure".

When using the verb for before, you can add the following -ki jon-e to the end. An example of this is shijak hagi jon-e (before we begin....).
To say with the verb after you will use -un hu-e or -un taum-e which can be used in the following mog-un hu-e (..after eating) or hakkyo-e ka-ntaum-e (..after going to school).

Using -ulkayo to ask questions

In Korean you can find several patterns that are present in verb endings such as -ulkayo which means shall we?. They can be used in the context such as ne-charirul hamkke yeyak hal su issulkayo> which means is it possible to book 4 seats together?