Compound verbs may be formed by combining more than two verbs. As illustrated below, the regular method of combining uses only the stem of the first verb. The irregular method may use a conjugated verb ending or a changed stem of the first verb.

Example:

Verb in Korean are the predicates in the sentence. Various meanings are given to verb by conjugation. Korean verbs may be divided into Action verbs and Adjectival verbs.

1. Action Verbs

Communicate the movement or the action of things

Examples:

Another special feature of Korean Language “Nominal Endings” make a verb into noun, by adding some predefined particles.

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Adnominal endings follow verbs stems or verb suffixes and modify nouns. Adnominal endings also convey verb tense. Depending upon the verb type, the selection of adnominal ending varies.

The Chart of Adnominal Endings:

When two sentences are connected, conjunctive endings follow the verb stem of the first sentence.

Terminative Ending determines the type of sentence. A sentence may be Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative or Propositive depending upon the type of verb ending.

A Chart for explaining different type of sentences in a terminative ending is as below:

In Korean what a sentence conveys depends a lot on the ending of the main verb of the sentence. There are certain predefined endings to the verb and these make a rule of meaning to be conveyed.

Ideally there are three types of endings for a Korean Verb

1.Terminative Ending.

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2. Conjunctive Ending

The simple structure of Korean Language can be explained as simple combinations of a subject and a predicate. The further sentence complexity is built upon this basic sentence structure. There are four basic sentence types of Korean, which are determined by the type of the verb used in the sentence.

Korean Sentence Types Chart