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Questions & Answers about eoje hakgyoe gasseoyo.
What does 어제 mean?
It means yesterday.
Why is there no subject like “I” in this sentence?
In Korean, subjects (and objects) are often omitted when they’re clear from context. Here the speaker and action are understood.
What is the role of -에 after 학교?
The particle -에 marks the destination with movement verbs like 가다. So 학교에 literally means “to school.”
How is the past tense formed for 가다 to get 갔어요?
- Drop -다 from 가다, leaving the stem 가-
- Add the past tense marker -았- (because the stem vowel is ㅏ)
- Attach the polite ending -어요
Putting it all together: 가- 았
- 어요 → 갔어요.
- 았
What does the ending -어요 indicate?
-어요 is a polite sentence ending in both present and past tenses (when combined with -았- or -었-). It makes the statement neither too formal nor too casual.
How would you make this sentence negative?
You have two common options:
• 어제 학교에 안 갔어요 (using 안 + verb)
• 어제 학교에 가지 않았어요 (using the formal negative ending -지 않다)
Both mean “I didn’t go to school yesterday.”
How do you turn it into a question?
Keep the structure and add a question mark (or rising intonation):
어제 학교에 갔어요?
This means “Did you go to school yesterday?”
What’s the difference between 학교에 갔어요 and 학교에서 갔어요?
• 학교에 갔어요 uses -에 to show you went to school (destination).
• 학교에서 갔어요 uses -에서 to show you left school or did something at school (location/starting point).