You finished this day
A whole conversation
Today there is no new grammar. Two people meet in a café, talk about their week and say goodbye, and almost every line uses something from the last 29 days. Read each line aloud, and where one trips you up, the note tells you which day to go back to.
Meeting at the café
Sam meets 민지 (Minji), a friend of a friend, for the first time:
The opening is almost fixed: greeting, set phrase, name, all with the endings from days 1 and 2. 처음 뵙겠습니다 uses the formal -습니다 ending because a first meeting calls for it, and then the conversation settles into the 해요체 of every other line. Notice how often a word disappears: 저는 in Sam's answer, the particle after 뭐. Once the context makes something clear, Korean leaves it out, which is why particles already looked optional on day 14.
Yesterday and the weekend
With drinks in hand, they talk about the week:
This part of the conversation moves through three tenses in four lines: 했어요 for yesterday, 쉴 거예요 for the weekend, 안 해요 for the plain present. Each is one ending on the verb, with everything in front of it unchanged, which is why a month of endings already adds up to this much. The small linking words do the rest: 그리고 adds, 근데 turns, 그래서 concludes. Try replacing each answer with your own week before moving on.
Leaving
Minji has to go, and they make a plan:
Turning down tomorrow with 못 rather than 안 keeps the refusal about circumstances, not about Sam, and offering Saturday straight after is what makes it friendly. 만나요 here is not a statement but a suggestion, a job the -요 form has had since day 13. The goodbye pair is decided by who is moving, exactly as on day 1. Both are -(으)세요 forms from day 26: 'go in peace' and 'stay in peace'.
Carry over, from earlier days
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Check yourself
8 questions. Get 5 right to finish the day.