Did not use (polite) in Korean 🇰🇷

사용 안 했어요 info.

Tips to remember:
• Remember that "사용" (sayong) means “use” or “usage”—think of “say on!” as a reminder to “use” something.
• "안 했어요" (an haesseoyo) is the polite past negative form of the verb 하다 (hada, “to do”), so “사용 안 했어요” literally means “did not do use,” i.e. “did not use.”
• Associate “사용” with “applying” or “utilizing” something, and “안 했어요” as the standard way to say something wasn’t done in the past in everyday polite speech.

Explanations:
• The phrase is made from the noun form "사용" derived from the verb "사용하다" (to use) combined with the negated past form "안 했어요" from 하다.
• "안" is placed before the past conjugation "했어요" (haesseoyo) to indicate negation.
• The entire phrase is in the polite past tense, appropriate for everyday conversation.

Other words with similar meaning:
• 이용 안 했어요 (iyong an haesseoyo) – using "이용하다" instead of "사용하다," also means “did not use.”
• 쓰지 않았어요 (sseuji anasseoyo) – from the verb 쓰다 ("to use" or "to write"), meaning “did not use” in a slightly different context.

Conjugations of the infinitive "사용하다" (to use):
Infinitive: 사용하다 (sayonghada)
• Present (polite): 사용해요 (sayonghaeyo) – “use/uses”
• Past (polite affirmative): 사용했어요 (sayonghaesseoyo) – “used”
• Past (polite negative): 사용 안 했어요 (sayong an haesseoyo) – “did not use”
• Future (polite): 사용할 거예요 (sayonghal geoyeyo) – “will use”
• Present progressive (polite): 사용하고 있어요 (sayonghago isseoyo) – “am/is/are using”

Example sentences:
1. I did not use that app.
– 그 앱을 사용 안 했어요.
– Geu aebeul sayong an haesseoyo.
2. She did not use the new feature.
– 그녀는 새로운 기능을 사용 안 했어요.
– Geunyeoneun saeroun gineung-eul sayong an haesseoyo.
3. They will not use this method.
– 그들은 이 방법을 사용하지 않을 거예요.
– Geudeureun i bangbeobeul sayonghaji aneul geoyeyo.
4. We are not using that tool.
– 우리는 그 도구를 사용하고 있지 않아요.
– Urineun geu dogureul sayonghago itji anayo.

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