Your first polite present forms

Remove 다 from the dictionary form and add 아요 or 어요 to build selected polite present forms.

Stem plus 아요 or 어요

Start from the dictionary form and remove 다 to find the stem. For the regular patterns here, a last stem vowel ㅏ or ㅗ takes 아요; most other vowels take 어요. 먹다 becomes 먹어요. This lesson teaches selected forms, not every contraction or irregular verb.

먹다 → 먹어요

meokda → meogeoyo — to eat → eat (polite)

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Hear whole syllables or words, not isolated letter names.

먹어요
to eat → eat (polite)

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Try it yourself

Choose the polite present form of 먹다.

먹어요먹아요먹다요

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