As a first project, I wanted to translate and analyze the latest album that BTS dropped just a month ago๐ฅน
I'll take all the korean sentences and try to translate each word/verb and give a quick analysis!
The first one is Body to Body, a song that spreads the message of how important is the closeness among people, a message that gets intensified once you hear the traditional korean song 'Arirang' at the end of the song. (It alwyas gives me goosebumps!!)
The first korean sentences are in Suga's verse:
์ด ์นผ ํค๋ณด๋ ๋ค ์ข ์น์
(In both there's no need to specify the plural form, which is usually expressed with the suffix -๋ค)
ํค๋ณด๋= literally 'keyboard' (it's a borrowed word from English)
์ข = abbreviation of ์กฐ๊ธ which means "a little"
์น์ = informal version of the verb ์น์ฐ๋ค which means "erase, put something away, clean something up". It's conjugated in a way that sounds like an order.
Guns, knives, keyboards put them all away.
Then we have the second sentence!
์ธ์์ ์งง์ ์ฆ์ค๋ ๋น์
(Similar structure as the previous one, but here we have two small sentences)
์ธ์= life + there's the topic marker ์, which suggests us that this one is the theme of the sentence. (It can also be the subject)
์งง์ = informal version of the descriptive verb ์งง๋ค which means "to be short".
์ฆ์ค= hate + again the topic marker ๋
๋น์= informal version of the verb ๋น์ฐ๋ค which means "to vacate" in this case linked to ์ฆ์ค is like "clear your mind from hate"
So the whole sentence literally could be:
Life is short, clear your mind from hate
๋ญ ์ฒด๋ฉด ๋ฐ์ ธ ๋ด๋ ค๋, ์ผ ์ธ๋ง
๋ญ= its an abbreviation for ๋ฌด์์ which means 'what' + the object particle ์
์ฒด๋ฉด= it means 'face' but in a more "social" way.
๋ฐ์ ธ = From ๋ฐ์ง๋ค, meaning to weigh, consider, worry, nitpick, or fuss over.
๋ด๋ ค๋ = From ๋ด๋ ค๋๋ค, meaning to put down, let go, or drop.
์ผ ์ธ๋ง= ์ผ mean "hey" while ์ธ๋ง means "dude, jerk, pal"
What makes you worry over a saving face, just drop it, hey dude
์ข ๋ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ์ skin to skin
์ข= abbreviation of ์กฐ๊ธ which means "a little"
๊ฐ๊น์ด ์= informal version of the verb ๊ฐ๊น์ด ์ค๋ค which means "to move closer"
Come a little more closer, skin to skin
Then we enter in the pre-chorus:
์ ๊ธฐ ์ ๋ฌ์ ๋ฟ๊ฒ ์์ ์
๋ฌ์= moon + location particle ใ
๋ฟ๊ฒ= verb ๋ฟ๋ค which means "to touch, to reach for, to come in contact with"
์์= hand + location particle ใ
Hand to hand, reaching for that moon over there
์= ~and/with (it's the particle that express company)
Then we have Hobi's verse!
์ = it's the particle that express possession, it's like "'s"
I mean, between you and me. ("Me" it's implied)
I mean, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ง์ ๊ทธ style
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ง์=์ฐ๋ฆฌ means "us/ours" + ๋ง it's a particle that means "only ~" and ์ it's the possessive marker we mentioned before.
I mean, that style that's only ours. (Meaning that their style it's different)
๋ ๋์ ๊ฐ์ง ์์ ์ด ๋ฐค
๋= two (pure Korean number)
๋์ = eyes + object marker
๊ฐ์ง ์์ = verb ๊ฐ๋ค "to close" + negative ์ง ์๋ค together mean "not closing" + ์ in this case doesn't stand for an object marker, it's what we call "relative form" and in this case it's on the future tense so "~that will~"
์ด๋ฐค = ์ด means "this" while ๋ฐค (as Kookie's doggy) means "night"
This night in which we won't close our eyes.
์๊ตฌ์น๋ ๊ฒจ๋ ์ ๋ง์
์๊ตฌ์น๋= from the verb ์๊ตฌ์น๋ค that means "to surge, to rise" the ๋ is another case of relative form but in this case in the present tense version.
๊ฒจ๋ ์= nation, people
๋ง์= heart, soul, spirit
The spirit of a rising nation
Then we have pre-chorus and chorus we already analyzed and then there's the Arirang part:
์๋ฆฌ๋, ์๋ฆฌ๋, ์๋ผ๋ฆฌ์
That's literally translated as you read it mostly because there is no translation for these words. Arirang can mean tons of things for what we all know.
Arirang, arirang, arariyo
์๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๋ค
์๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ก = Arirang + ๊ณ ๊ฐ means "mountain, hill" then we have the direction marker ๋ก
๋์ด๊ฐ๋ค = verb ๋์ด๊ฐ๋ค which means "to cross over" + the -ใด๋ค ending is what we call the "narrative ending" so its usually used to tell a story.
Crossing over the hill of Arirang
๋๋ฅผ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์๋ ๋์
Here we have two sentences and a relative!
๋๋ฅผ= me + object marker
๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ณ = verb ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ค which means "to leave behind" + suffix ๊ณ which connects two sentences/verbs.
๊ฐ์๋= onorific version of the verb ๊ฐ๋ค which means "to go" (for the onorific just add the -์ particle) + present tense relative
๋์= ๋ is a more affectionate way to call someone. You can translate it as "loved one", "beloved one". + topic marker
My beloved, one who is leaving me behind and goes away.
์ญ ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ชป ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ณ ๋๋ค
์ญ= ten (sino-korean number)
๋ฆฌ๋= ๋ฆฌ it's a measure of distance. 1 li/ri it's about 400 metres. + ๋ which means "also, too"
๋ชป ๊ฐ์= ๋ชป it's another way to turn a verb in it's negative form, with the sole difference that if you use this particle it will implied that you couldn't do that action. + we have again the ๊ฐ๋ค "to go" verb and the -์ suffix that implies that after that action there's a consequence so it can be translated as "then, because etc."
๋ฐ๋ณ= feet pain (literally ๋ฐ means foot while ๋ณ means illness, another bts song is called like that which is "disease")
๋๋ค= verb ๋๋ค "to occur" + narrative ending.
You will get your feet sore even if you can't cross 10 li
And that's it!!! This was the first translation I made๐ฅน I tried to be as literal as possible to make you understand each grammar point! I hope you will find this helpful!!