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grammar

• -네: (indicates surprise at hearing or learning something for the first time; can also imply admiration)
  
• -을 땐 (contraction of -을 때는): [during the time] when…
  
• 못 하다: unable to, cannot
  
• 대로: (indicates that something is done “as the same way/form” as one “experienced” something)
• -기 전에: before [a certain period of time or action]
  
• -야 하다: must, have to
  
• -면 돼: (indicates that the preceding word is sufficient or enough) “It’s enough that…”, “[You] just have to…”
  
• 같이: like, in a similar way 
  
• 마저: even (used when including the very last remaining item or member of a set of things; usually negative)
  
• -지: (turns a sentence into a question, but one that the speaker already knows the answer to – more of asking for confirmation or reaffirmation) “…right?”
  
• -ㄹ/을 수 없다: can’t, unable to
  
• -던: (past tense)
  
• -조차: even, too, in addition to, besides (almost always used negatively/with negative verbs to mean “not even”)
  
• -ㄹ/ㄴ 듯이: like, as if, as though

verbs/adjectives

• 뜨다: to rise, come up, float; to take off, leave
  
• 찌르다: jab, poke, prod (with hands); pierce, stab (with a knife/needle)
  
• 날아다니다 (conjugated form: 날아다녀): to fly around, flutter, flit
• 걷다 (conjugated form: 걸어): to walk, tread
• 어둡다: to be dark, dim, gloomy, somber, dusky
• 퍼지다: to spread out, flare out; to circulate, travel, get around
  
• 소리치다: to shout, yell, cry out, call out; to bawl
  
• 내지르다: to hit, strike, punch, kick [at something]; can also mean “to utter a shriek, shout, yell, scream”
  
• 축배를 들다: to drink/raise a toast [to something]
• 감다: to wind up, reel in, coil around, twine
  
• 차올리다: to kick up
  
• 높다: to be high, tall
  
• 흘러넘치다: to overflow, brim, spill; to be crowded, flooded; to exceed, be superfluous
• 잃어버리다: to lose (as in, to no longer have in one’s possession)
• 막다: to block, obstruct, head off, stop, prevent, keep [from]
  
• 되다 (conjugated form: 돼): to become
  
• 꼬이다: to be twisted, entangled; (informal) to be screwed up, messed up, get complicated, go wrong; to be bitter, sullen, resentful
• 쓰러뜨리다: to knock down, blow down; to topple, overthrow, bring down
• 수많다: to be many, numerous; a lot of
  
• 같다: to be the same, identical, equal, similar
  
• 반복하다: to repeat 
  
• 무너뜨리다: to tear down, knock down, pull down, demolish, destroy
  
• 보이다: to be seen, shown, come into sight
  
• 가다: to go
  
• 만들다: to make, create, invent, produce, manufacture, construct
  
• 극적이다: to be dramatic, theatrical 
  
• 깊다: to be deep
  
• 펼쳐지다: to spread, stretch out, unfold
  
• 새롭다: to be new, fresh, original
  
• 잡다: to hold [in one’s hand], take, grasp, grip, grab, seize
  
• 들어오다: to enter, come in, walk into, step into
  
• 태어나다: to be born

nouns

• 무대: stage
  
• 느낌: feeling, sensation
  
• 이해: understanding, comprehension, grasp
• 머리: head; mind, brain
• 이야기: story; conversation, talk, chat
  
• 어제: yesterday
  
• 오늘: today
  
• 목소리: voice
  
• 축제: festival, celebration, party
  
• 지붕: roof
  
• 우주: space, the universe, the cosmos
  
• 겁: fear, fright, terror, dread
  
• 놈: (informal) guy; (offensive) jerk
  
• 영화: movie, film
  
• 걸음걸이: walk, gait
  
• 자비: mercy
  
• 날: day
  
• 장면: scene, sight
  
• 끝: end, conclusion, finish 
  
• 상상: imagination
  
• 곳: place, point, spot, location
  
• 세상: world

adverbs

• 위로:위 (preposition: up, above, top) + -(으)로 (indicates the direction in which something is happening)
  
• 앞으로:앞 (preposition: in front) + -(으)로 (indicates the direction in which something is happening)
  
• 좌우(sino-Korean: 左右): left and right, side to side
• 하루 종일: all day [long], from morning until night
  
• 지금: right now, currently
  
• 여기로:여기 (here) + -(으)로 (indicates the direction in which something is happening)
  
• 더: more, -er
• 모두: all, wholly, entirely
  
• 배배: windingly
  
• 하나씩: one by one, one at a time 
  
• 아주: very, extremely, exceedingly
• 다시: again, once more
  
• 훅: (onomatopoeia that can describe the sound of wind suddenly blowing in, or a certain smell suddenly appearing)
  

phrases/expressions

• 불이 붙네:  longer form of 불붙다 (to catch fire, ignite); from 불 (fire) + 붙다 (to stick, adhere)
  
• 아무 생각[하지] 말고: “Don’t think about anything.”; from 아무 (any) + 생각하다 (to think) +  -지 말다 (to stop doing something; imperative connotation, i.e. asking someone to stop) +  -고(and)
• 삼켜버리다: to devour, swallow whole; from 삼키다 (to swallow) + -버리다 (a helping verb which indicates that an action/verb is already finished; sometimes implies that the speaker misses, regrets, or already feels better/relieved about what happened)
  
• 어딜 가든, 어디서든: wherever one goes; from 어디 (where) + 가다 (to go)/-(에)서 (indicates where something is happening) + -든 (used when listing choices; usually ‘whichever’, ‘whatever’, etc.)
  
• 눈앞에: right in front of one’s eyes; from 눈 (eyes) + 앞(front) +-에 (indicates location)
  

I’ve been picking up my heart. He’s been picking up her - T. Swift