What does -았어요/었어요 mean in Korean?

-았어요/었어요 (-asseoyo/eosseoyo) means "completed-action particle (past tense ending)" in Korean.

-았어요/었어요

Q: How do you use -았어요/었어요 in a sentence?

어제 학교에 갔어요. (Eoje hakgyoe gasseoyo.) — I went to school yesterday.

Romanisation: -asseoyo/eosseoyo

completed-action particle (past tense ending)

🇰🇷 Korean Level 2 🔗 Grammar & Phrases

Example sentence

어제 학교에 갔어요.

Eoje hakgyoe gasseoyo.

I went to school yesterday.

What -았어요/었어요 means

-았어요/었어요 (-asseoyo/eosseoyo) is a Korean word meaning “completed-action particle (past tense ending)”. It belongs to the Grammar & Phrases topic and appears at Level 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Korean.

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