만지작거리다

to fiddle with

Principal parts

관형사형Modifier
만지작거리는
아/어Infinitive
만지작거려
-으니Since
만지작거리니
합니다Formal
만지작거립니다

Present

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
서술Statement 만지작거려요만지작거립니다만지작거려만지작거린다

Past

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
서술Statement 만지작거렸어요만지작거렸습니다만지작거렸어만지작거렸다

Future & presumptive

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
-겠-Will / must be 만지작거리겠어요만지작거리겠습니다만지작거리겠어만지작거리겠다
-을 것이다Going to 만지작거릴 거예요만지작거릴 것입니다만지작거릴 거야만지작거릴 것이다

Questions

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
현재Present 만지작거려요?만지작거립니까?만지작거려?만지작거리니?
과거Past 만지작거렸어요?만지작거렸습니까?만지작거렸어?만지작거렸니?

Commands

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
명령Do it 만지작거리세요만지작거리십시오만지작거려만지작거려라
청유Let's 만지작거려요만지작거립시다만지작거려만지작거리자

Negation

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
안Not (short) 안 만지작거려요안 만지작거립니다안 만지작거려안 만지작거린다
-지 않다Not (long) 만지작거리지 않아요만지작거리지 않습니다만지작거리지 않아만지작거리지 않는다
못Cannot 못 만지작거려요못 만지작거립니다못 만지작거려못 만지작거린다

Honorific

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
현재Present 만지작거리세요만지작거리십니다만지작거리셔만지작거리신다
과거Past 만지작거리셨어요만지작거리셨습니다만지작거리셨어만지작거리셨다

Modifying a noun

현재Present
만지작거리는
과거Past
만지작거린
미래Future
만지작거릴
회상Used to
만지작거리던

Joining clauses

-고and
만지작거리고
-게-ly / so that
만지작거리게
-어서so / and then
만지작거려서
-으니까since
만지작거리니까
-으면if / when
만지작거리면
-지만but
만지작거리지만
-는데and / but (setting up)
만지작거리는데
-어도even if
만지작거려도

In progress

해요체Polite합니다체Formal해체Casual한다체Plain
현재Is doing 만지작거리고 있어요만지작거리고 있습니다만지작거리고 있어만지작거리고 있다
과거Was doing 만지작거리고 있었어요만지작거리고 있었습니다만지작거리고 있었어만지작거리고 있었다

Sentence patterns

In real sentences

이러저리 돌아다니고 옷을 만지작거립니다.

They would walk around. They would play with their skirts and pants.

봤지, 꿈에 나타나서 거시기 만지작거리지 말라고 말씀은 했지만..

Yeah, she showed up in a dream and told me not to play with the parts.

이 카드를 만지작거리다 보면 카드를 접었을 때 간단한 이야기가 펼쳐진다는 걸 깨닫게 됩니다.

As people tinker with it, they discover that bending the card brings them through this simple story.

철학자들은 과학진흥협회 회원들처럼 화석 더미를 만지작거리거나 전기 전지로 난잡한 실험 따위는 하지 않는다는 것입니다.

They were not mucking around in the fossil pits or conducting messy experiments with electrical piles like the members of the British Association.

Common questions

How do you conjugate 만지작거리다 in Korean?

만지작거리다 (to fiddle with) is 만지작거려요 in the polite 해요체, 만지작거립니다 in formal 합니다체, 만지작거려 in casual 반말 and 만지작거린다 in the plain written style. The past is 만지작거렸어요.

What is the past tense of 만지작거리다?

만지작거렸어요 in everyday polite speech, 만지작거렸습니다 formally. It is built from the 아/어 form 만지작거려 plus ㅆ, which is why an irregular stem shows its irregularity here.

Is 만지작거리다 a regular verb?

Yes. Its stem never changes shape: 만지작거립니다, 만지작거려, 만지작거리니 all keep 만지작거리 intact. Only the ending moves.

What TOPIK level is 만지작거리다?

It carries no TOPIK grade. That is a fact about the published word lists rather than about the word — it conjugates by exactly the same rules as everything else.

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