#유라
안녕하세요 여러분! Hey everyone! I got another request for a K-pop breakdown, so here it is! This one was pretty tricky for me to break down, but I hope it all makes sense anyways! If you have a song you’d like to see me break down, let me know and I’ll try to fulfill it!
You can listen to this song here! I used lyricstranslate.com’s really good translations and Naver Dictionary to help me out. As usual, I linked my full-length lessons about the grammar structures mentioned if you want to learn more about them! Let’s start!
휘하고 멋지게 솟구치는 눈은 / 이별에 손짓인 듯 부서지는 / 밤으로 가득한 고요를 본다
The snow that soars up majestically with a whoosh / Sees the silence full of night / That is shattered by our goodbye as if it were a gesture
- 휘하다 -> I can’t find a related translation for this word on Naver Dictionary, but just going off the translations from lyricstranslate, it means “with a whoosh.”
- 멋지다 can mean anything from “nice” to “awesome” to “charming.”
- [adjective stem] + 게 turns that adjective into an adverb.
- -고is attached to stems to mean “and.” So 휘하고 멋지게 means “with a whoosh and majestically.”
- 솟구치다 = soar; gush; surge
- 눈 = snow
- [verb] + 는 + [noun] = [noun] that [verbs] -> This is how you describe nouns with verbs in the present tense.
- -은 is a topic particle that shows that 눈 is the topic of the sentence. More about particles here!
- 이별 = farewell; goodbye
- 에 = is a location particle meaning “to” or “in.” In this context, however, it means “by,” as in “shattered by.”
- 손짓 = hand gesture
- [noun] + 인듯 = as if it is [noun]
- 부서지다 = break; be broken; be shattered
- 밤 = night
- 가득하다 = full [of smth]
- -(으)로 in this context means “with” or “of,” as in “filled with night” or “full of night.”
- 고요 = silence
- 보다 = to see
- [verb stem] + ㄴ/는다 or [adjective stem] + 다 is known as the plain style or narrative form. This type of speech doesn’t really have a formality level. You see it a lot in books and newspapers where there’s not really a specific formality level you’re using. It can also be used with those who you would speak informally to.
돌아보는 여운이 안타깝다 / 숨을 쉰다 눈이 온다 / 인사한다 잠이 든다
The afterglow is full of regret / Breathing, snowing / Greeting, falling asleep
- 돌아보다 = to look back
- 여운 = resonance; lingering feeling; echo
- I think 돌아보는 여운 literally means “the resonance I looked back on” or something like that.
- 안타깝다 = regrettable; sad
- 숨을 쉬다 = to breathe
- 눈이 오다 = to snow (literally “snow comes”)
- 인사하다 = to greet
- 잠이 들다 = to fall asleep
- When conjugated into the plain style, the ㄹ gets dropped and replaced with -ㄴ다 because it’s irregular.
떠나간다 / 떠나간다 / 남은 것은 이제 없다
Leaving / Leaving / Now there’s nothing left
- 떠나가다 = to leave
- 남다 = to remain; to be left
- 남은 것 = what’s left; the things that remain
- 이제 = now
- 없다 = to not be there; to not exist; to not have
그대가 웃는 걸 보면서 나도 웃는다 / 발자국에 아쉬움 꾹 묻어둔 채로
As I look at you smile, I smile too / Burying my regret in my footprints
- 그대 = You -> this is a more romantic way of saying “you” that you would say to your partner.
- 웃다 = to smile; to laugh
- 웃는 걸 refers to the fact that you’re smiling. The action of you smiling is turned into a noun, and that is what the speaker is looking at.
- [verb stem] + (으)면서 means “as one [does verb]” and is used for when two actions are done simultaneously.
- 나 = I (informal)
- -도 = too
- 발자국 = footprints
- 아쉽다 = be a shame; be a pity
- 아쉬움 is the noun form of 아쉽다 courtesy of -ㅁ nominalization.
- 꾹 = firmly; completely
- 묻어두다 = hide; bury; conceal
- -ㄴ 채로 describes the state that something is in as an action is being done. In this case, the speaker is smiling with her heart buried – her heart is in the state of being buried as she is smiling.
That’s all for this breakdown – I hope it was helpful! See you in the next lesson! 다음에 또 봐요!
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