Say what you did yesterday. Today covers three past-tense patterns — and the good news is one of them covers a huge number of everyday verbs with zero exceptions.
Korean past tense has more variety than what fits in one lesson — full verb conjugation with vowel harmony is a topic on its own. Today covers the three patterns you can use immediately.
The copula past follows the exact same batchim rule as Lesson 3's 이에요/예요. If you know that rule, you already know this one.
Huge numbers of Korean verbs are "noun + 하다" (to do ___): 공부하다 (study), 운동하다 (exercise), 좋아하다 (like). Every single one of them takes 했어요 in the past — no exceptions.
Time words and a few new 하다-verbs.
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Add 이었어요 (after batchim) or 였어요 (after a vowel) instead of 이에요/예요.
있었어요 (there was / I had) and 없었어요 (there wasn't / I didn't have) — no batchim rule needed, they're always the same shape.
Pick a 하다-verb and flip between today and yesterday.
All three patterns from today, used together.
10 questions on today's three past-tense patterns.