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"if" - 면 - with adjectives in the past So, here's my newest problem :)) In order to say "If I do #action verb#" Koreans might say, for instance "가면". In order to say "If I did #action verb#" you just change the form to "갔면". Like "If I did go, why don't I remember...?" But what about descriptive verbs? "If she IS pretty---" = "예쁘면...." (like in: "if she is pretty, why don't you date?") "If she was pretty...." = ??? (like in: "if she was pretty, why didn't you date?") Can somebody help me out? I would be really happy!

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You treat it the same way. Any verb stem plus -(으)면 becomes an 'if' clause. Haha good question though, it made me double check to make sure I myself knew it indeed was what I thought.

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