The apartment would have been perfect in Korean 🇰🇷

Sentence info.

The sentence breaks down as follows:

• “아파트는” – “아파트” (apartment) is marked by “는” to indicate the topic.
  Romanized: “apateu-neun”

• “완벽했을것입니다” – This is a hypothetical past construction from the adjective “완벽하다” (to be perfect). The normal past form is “완벽했다.” To express “would have been perfect,” Korean drops the final “다” and adds “을 것이다” to form “완벽했을 것이다.” In very formal speech, this becomes “완벽했을 것입니다.”
  Romanized: “wanbyeokhaesseul geosimnida”

Tips to remember:
1. Use the topic marker “는” after a noun to set the context.
2. To express a hypothetical past state in formal speech, take the past form of the adjective (or verb) and add “을 것이다” (which is contracted in formal writing as “을 것입니다”).
3. The structure “Noun + 는 + adjective/verb past stem + 을 것이다” is useful when describing what something would have been like.

Alternate ways to say “The apartment would have been perfect”:
• 아파트는 완벽했을 거예요.
  Romanized: “apateu-neun wanbyeokhaesseul geoyeyo” (less formal, polite)
• 아파트는 완벽했을 거야.
  Romanized: “apateu-neun wanbyeokhaesseul geoya” (casual)

Each variant uses the same basic structure with slight changes in the ending for level of formality.

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