K-Pop Breakdown: 유라 (youra) - “하양 (RAL 9002)″
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.
-고 is 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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