I have posted so many topics related to verbs, this time it’s how to create verb in suspective form. For the longest time, I have been thinking what suspective verb means. I have never encountered such in English so using ‘common-sense’, suspective is from the word suspect which is synonymous to think, imagine, expect etc.
Reading my Elementary Korean Book, I think that this form is used in several expressions. For now, I would like to think that the reason why there is a suspective form of verb is because of these expressions requiring verb to be in that form.
It’s easy to create verb in suspective form, this is just base+지, as for the past tense form 지 is added in the past base form.
|
Base |
Suspective |
Past Suspective |
Meaning |
| 하 (ha) | 하지 (haji) | 했지 (haettji) | to do |
| 자 (ja) | 자지 (jaji) | 잤지 (jattji) | sleep |
| 보 (bo) | 보지 (boji) | 봤지 (bwattji) | look |
| 쓰 (ssu) | 쓰지 (ssujji) | 썼지 (seottji) | write |
| 먹 (meok) | 먹지 (meokji) | 먹었지 (meokji) | eat |
Uses of verbs in this form will be in suceeding post.
I’m not sure if you are aware, but your book may be pulling a fast one on non-korean speakers. Jaji and Boji are both crude terms for male and female genitalia, respectively.
obviously these words i used here are decent and of decent intentions.