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This is time for you to learn this.

ㅂ irregular.

What is irregular?

Irregular even exists in English.

For example, in school, I learned that

to make the past tense, I just need to put -ed, right?

You just need to put -ed, for example.

I exercised.

I exercise is present tense.

I exercised is past tense.

What else?

I study.

I study is present tense.

I studied is past tense.

But you know, think.

It's thinked?

Thinked?

No, it's "thought."

How about this?

Yum, yum, yum, yum, eat.

Eat.

The past tense is "eated?"

No, it's "ate."

How about this?

Run.

The past tense is "ran."

We read?

Read is not readed.

It's "read."

So even in English, there are irregular when you use verb.

And Korean irregular are very important,

especially when you conjugate it.

There are lots of conjugations in Korean.

For example, in English, you say,

If I go.

If is a separate word in English.

But in Korean, we say like,

가면.

가면 means if I go.

가 means like go.

If.

So you conjugate two different words in Korean

and it becomes one word like this.

Go if.

가면.

If I go.

But you know what?

When you conjugate with two different words,

there are lots of irregulars.

And one of the irregular is ㅂ irregular.

What are ㅂ irregular, first?

So here are examples.

춥다.

Meaning "cold."

춥다 meaning "cold."

And another example I have is 덥다.

Meaning "hot."

Hot.

How about this?

귀엽다.

There are more.

눕다.

Or 쉽다.

Oh, by the way, do you know what is 눕다?

It means "lie down," lie.

쉽다 meaning "easy."

Do you see something in common?

Yes, the stem end with ㅂ.

Do you see ㅂ?

ㅂ.

Yes, it ended with ㅂ.

춥다.

귀엽다.

덥다.

눕다.

쉽다.

Yes, with irregular ㅂ verb or adjective, the stem ends with ㅂ.

By the way, if you are super beginner, you are not familiar with stem.

What is stem?

Do you see something in another common thing?

Yes, everything ends with 다, 다, 다, 다, 다.

Remove 다.

These are the stem.

So all the Korean verb and adjective end with 다

and remove 다 without 다, the left part is stem.

Stem end with ㅂ, right?

춥다 meaning "cold."

덥다 meaning "hot."

귀엽다 meaning "cute."

눕다 meaning "lie down."

쉽다, 쉽다 means "easy," easy.

So these are ㅂ irregular.

It can be verb or adjective.

And another important thing.

Another important thing.

Not, not, not all verb and adjective ending with ㅂ are irregular.

So these are irregulars, but there are other verb or adjective that end with, the stem end with ㅂ, but they are not irregular, they are regular.

So how can you know?

Unfortunately, you have to memorize it.

I'm sorry. You have to memorize it.

Let's see how we can use this rule.

Rule number one.

Check if the verb or adjective is ㅂ irregular.

So you have to see, is it regular or irregular?

If it's regular, then ignore this rule.

If it's only irregular, then oh yes, you have to follow this.

And if it's ㅂ irregular, then go to number two.

Check if the following conjugation start with the vowel.

For example, what does it mean, teacher?

Do you know Korean conjugations?

Like for example, (으)면, (으)면 means "if."

How about this?

으니까?

It means like "because."

Because.

Oops.

Because.

And then 고싶다.

Meaning "want to."

Want to.

Other thing would be -ㅂ/습니다.

습니다 is formal ending.

Formal ending.

So if you use this at the end of the verb or adjective, that sounds very formal.

Or 기로하다.

기로하다.

I'm not going to explain these details because this is a topic for next next week.

So this means "decide to."

Decide to.

And this is, 습니다 is formal.

These are the examples of ending or the conjugation conjugation.

So see if the following conjugation start with a vowel.

Let's see.

(으)면, does it start with a vowel?

으, 으, 으.

Yes, it start with a vowel.

으, 으, (으)면, (으)면.

Yes, this start with a vowel.

How about this?

고 싶다.

고, 고, 고.

Oh, it start with a consonant.

Yes, it's consonant.

So if you see this conjugation after ㅂ irregular, then you don't have to follow this rule.

부, 부, 부, 부. Remove!

Only if the conjugation start with a vowel.

Okay, 고 싶다 start with a consonant.

Let's see.

으니까.

어, 으, 으, 으.

It start with a vowel.

So it should use ㅂ irregular rule.

ㅂ/ 습니다.

ㅂ or 습니다 both are consonant.

So, oh, this is not starting with a vowel, so I'm not applying this rule.

Next.

기로하다.

어, 기, 기, 기.

Start with a consonant.

So it's not applying.

So when you use, when you see the conjugation starting with a vowel, then you are going to use the rule number three. Any conjugation that start with a vowel.

음영, 으니까.

Then you will be using this ㅂ irregular.

고 싶다, 습니다, 기로하다 start with a consonant, right?

So we don't use it.

So let's see.

Let's see the last rule.

Okay, now number one passed.

Number two passed.

Now number three.

Let's conjugate it.

So do you remember some example of ㅂ irregulars?

Let's try to use 춥다.

춥다 meaning "cold."

춥다.

This was ㅂ irregular, right?

And then now I'm using the conjugation 으면.

으면, 으면.

Oh, it starts with a vowel, right?

So I need to do number three.

First, 춥다.

춥다 meaning "cold" and this was ㅂ irregular.

Pass.

Number one, yes.

Number two, check if the following conjugation start with a vowel.

으면, yes, it start with a vowel.

Okay, now let's go to number three.

So if you don't know this rule, you'll probably do like this.

춥다. Usually, usually when you use this 으면 conjugation, this is a rule.

춥다, 춥다.

Remove 다 at the end and you have 춥 here, right?

춥, 춥, 춥.

Okay, 춥, it ended with kind of like p-sound, kind of.

Not exactly p-sound, but it's kind of similar.

So 춥.

Okay, it ended with constant.

The 받침, 받침.

And since it ended with constant, then you use 으면.

If it's not irregular, you should be doing like this.

But unfortunately, this is irregular, so you don't follow this rule.

What you do is 춥다, and first, get the stem.

What's the stem?

Remove 다, you have 춥 here, 춥, 춥, 춥.

This is the stem, stem.

Okay, then what do you need to do?

Remove ㅂ from the stem.

Okay, I removed the ㅂ.

I removed it.

Here you are.

And then add 우 before the conjugation.

Okay.

So now this works as the stem.

This becomes stem.

We change the stem.

춥우.

Oh, now 우.

춥우.

It ended with vowel sound.

So I'm putting 면 here.

면 here.

춥우면.

Ah, 즈.

즈라이다 is 춥우면.

Please see the rule again.

First, remove ㅂ from the stem and add 우 before the conjugation.

So 춥우면.

If you feel cold is 춥우면.

춥우면.

콧트 입어, "wear the coat."

콧트 is "coat."

이버 means "wear."

춥우면 콧트 입어.

If it's cold, wear the coat.

춥우면 콧트 입어.

콧트 입어.

춥우면 콧트 입어.

Yes, 구우면 is one of the examples, too.

If I bake, bake.

It's 추우면.

추우면.

니디.

Let's see another example.

Let's try 덥다, meaning "hot."

덥다.

으면, it means "if."

And 덥다 means "hot."

Let's conjugate it.

Okay, so let's see rule.

Rule number one.

Check if the verb or adjective is ㅂ irregular.

Is 덥다 ㅂ-irregular?

Yes, it is.

It is.

So let's move on to number two.

Check if the following conjugation starts with a vowel.

Let's see.

으면, oh, it starts with a vowel.

Awesome, awesome.

So yes, number two, yes.

Since both of them are yes, let's move on to number three.

Remove ㅂ from the stem and add 우 before the conjugation.

Yes.

So first, let's get the stem.

덥다, what's the stem?

What's the stem of this adjective?

Remove 다 again, then you have 덥 here.

덥 is the stem, the original stem.

But remove ㅂ, remove ㅂ from this stem to use this one.

더, now add 우, 더 우, okay.

Now I have 더 우.

Should I use 으면 or 면?

더 우, 더 우, by the way, for those of you who are not familiar with this conjugation,

if the stem end with consonant or vowel, consonant or vowel, consonant, then you use 으면.

If the stem end with vowel, then you use 면, 면, 면.

So 더 우, 더 우, it ended with vowel, so I'm not using 더 우, 으면, I use 면, 면.

더우면.

So it means "if it's hot," if it's hot.

So turn on the air conditioner if you feel hot, if it's hot.

더우면, 에어컨 틀어.

날씨가 더우면.

How about this?

귀엽다 meaning "cute."

침침 is cute.

귀엽다, 귀엽다.

Plus, now I want to use the formal ending.

습니다.

Do you know the answer?

How can I say 귀엽다 in 습니다?

Check if the verb or adjective is ㅂ irregular.

Is it ㅂ irregular?

Yes, it's ㅂ irregular.

Yes, this is ㅂ irregular.

Okay, so let's see number two.

Check if the following conjugation starts with a vowel.

습니다.

It starts with a consonant.

습니다.

Okay, since this one starts with a consonant, not a vowel, we don't follow the number three.

It's just 귀엽 습니다.

귀엽 습니다.

We don't make it like 귀엽 우, we don't change it.

Because in the rule number two, it starts with a consonant.

So we don't follow number three.

Boo, boo, boo, remove this.

Remove it.

So 귀엽 습니다.

It's cute.

He's cute or "she's cute."

귀엽 습니다.

습다.

Meaning "chew."

씹다, 씹다, "chew.".

It's regular.

Or 입다.

입다, meaning "wear."

You wear clothes, you wear clothes, right?

Or how about this?

Catch, or "hold."

Catch is...

잡다, 잡다, 잡다.

Hold or "catch."

Or 접다, 접다.

Meaning "to fold," to fold.

Again, again, these are, oops, these are regular verbs.

Regular verb and regular adjectives, so you don't follow this.

So for example, I want to conjugate it with...

으면.

Let's see.

접다 plus 으면.

Okay, let's see.

Rule number one.

Check if the verb or adjective is ㅂ irregular.

Is 접다 irregular?

No, this is regular.

This is regular, so you don't follow this.

So please remember, since this is regular, you don't use this, like, remove ㅂ from the stem and add 우 before the conjugation, you don't follow this because these are regular.

So check out the... check out, please, please, please check out the lesson note.

There are ㅂ irregular and ㅂ regular in the list. So check out, it will be very, very, very useful.

And also, there are some exceptions, and 돕다 meaning "to help."

곱다 meaning "to be pretty."

So please remember that following conjugation should start with a vowel.

If it starts with a consonant, then you don't follow this.

And number two.

Second thing.

Not all verbs and adjectives that end with ㅂ in the stem are irregular.

Some are regular, some are irregular.

How do you know? Well, you have to memorize this.

And only if the verb or adjective is ㅂ irregular, you follow this.

Remove ㅂ from the stem and add 우 before the conjugation.

So how do Korean people use this rule?

How do Korean people use this rule?

So for example, if they see this word 춥다, they want to conjugate it 으면.

So do Korean people think 춥다 plus 으면?

Okay, so first remove 다.

First remove 다 and see this end with ㅂ or not.

And oh, it ended with ㅂ.

So is it irregular or irregular?

Ah, this is irregular.

So here, I remove ㅂ and put 우 and then, and then, since it ended with vowel, so I use 면.

Okay, do Korean people always think like this?

The Koreans are so smart and their brain works like super computer and they think about this rule so fast like this?

Actually, no.

We say this 추면 추면 추면 many times.

So if we just want to say, "if I feel cold," we say 추면 naturally.

It's because we really listened a lot, we pronounced a lot, we wrote a lot.

So when we want to say, "if cold," if cold, we naturally say 추면 directly.

So we kind of memorize the word 추면 as a word itself.

추면 추면 추면.

Yes, so what you need to do is you have to practice a lot.

Not only speak out, you also need to listen a lot, you need to write a lot.

So when you want to say, "if cold," you will naturally say 추면 directly.

추면 추면.

So please, please repeat many many times that we say naturally without thinking and you should do the same thing.

For now, you have to know this rule because, well, you cannot memorize, okay, 춥다 is 추면,

쉽다 is 씹으면, what else? 덥다 더우면,

you cannot memorize every single word.

It's very difficult. So first, follow this rule, follow this rule because you cannot memorize all. There are like hundreds of verbs or adjectives that end with verb and you cannot always memorize.

For this conjugation, is 추면.

For this, you cannot memorize every single conjugation.

So first memorize it and if you say many many times, "if it's cold," 추면 추면 추면,

더우면 더우면, "if it's hot," 더우면 더우면, then you will naturally say it.

So important thing is you repeat many times.

So your brain, your tongue naturally say it without thinking.

Bye bye!

침침, say bye!

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