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#  Posted: 30 Mar 2008 13:18 KST - Edited by: _joseph_
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conditional tense

The conditional tense is really If sentences. Korean has no difference between factual conditional (All men are tall. He is a man. If he is a man, he will be tall) and conditional conditional (If you had gone, you would have made it there on time) or (If you go, you`d make it). I shall limit this discussion just to the conditional conditional.

The following are the ways to form it.

1. Are you familiar with the 었 past tense? In Korean this also doubles as a hypothetical indicator. So, it is the conditional tense as well as the past tense.

Maybe you can`t believe that that`s actually true, I must be talking about time travel. The past tense can be used as the conditional. Shit. The only consolation I can offer the poor internet surfer reading my site for grammar is that this is indeed true.

했으면
If you do is do으면, and the predicate is its own sentence.

This is the reason Koreans have a hard time with conditional sentences.

Another example of this is
오죽 .. 읐으면


which means how nice it would have been, or to what a degree it must have happened

2. The local thread on would have, should have
see the entry here which is ㄹ/을걸 그랬어요

3. Also see it would be better if which is past tense+면 하다

었(았, 였)으면 싶다: wouldn`t it be better if ......

전화 벨소리를 들었을 때 나는 아내일 것이라고 직감했다


4. 던들

Joseph, copying from:
16회한국어고급 시험 자료

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#  Posted: 7 Nov 2009 23:09 KST - Edited by: Joseph, copying from:
16회한국어고급 시험 자료
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from the 16th 한국어능력시험 문법/어휘 section:

앞 차량과 충분한 안전 거리를 유지하지 않았더라면 큰 사고가 날 뻔했다.

if we hadn`t left a sufficient following distance, there was almost an accident ?


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