Be late at night in Korean 🇰🇷

밤늦다 info.

Tips to Remember:
• Notice that 밤 (bam) means “night” and 늦다 (neutda) means “to be late.” Visualize a scene where it’s really late at night to reinforce the connection.
• Think of it as a compound word: night + late, which directly reminds you of “be late at night.”

Explanations:
• 밤늦다 is formed by combining 밤 (“night”) and 늦다 (“to be late”), conveying that it is late during the nighttime.
• It functions as the verb/adjective describing a state in time, often used to indicate that the night has advanced into a late hour.

Other Words with a Similar Meaning:
• 늦은 밤 (neut-eun bam) – “late night” (adjectival phrase)
• 밤늦게 (bam neut-ge) – used adverbially to mean “late at night”

Conjugations (using 늦다 as the base verb in the combined form 밤늦다):

Infinitive:
 밤늦다 (bam neutda)

Polite Present:
 밤늦어요 (bam neut-eoyo)

Informal Low/Conversational Present:
 밤늦어 (bam neut-eo)

Polite Past:
 밤늦었어요 (bam neut-eosseoyo)

Informal Past:
 밤늦었어 (bam neut-eosseo)

Future (Polite):
 밤늦을 거예요 (bam neut-eul geoyeyo)

Future (Informal):
 밤늦을 거야 (bam neut-eul geoya)

Examples of Sentences:
1. “It’s already late at night; let’s go home.”
 Korean: 벌써 밤늦었어요, 집에 가요.
 Romanized: Beolsseo bam neut-eosseoyo, jibe gayo.

2. “Don’t stay out too late at night.”
 Korean: 밤늦게 밖에 있지 마세요.
 Romanized: Bam neut-ge bakke itji maseyo.

3. “When it becomes late at night, the streets are quiet.”
 Korean: 밤늦으면 거리가 조용해져요.
 Romanized: Bam neut-eumyeon georiga joyonghaejyeoyo.

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