song vocab
๐ VOCAB LIST (Grouped by theme)
๐ต Nature & Imagery
Korean | English | Notes |
๊น๋ง ํ๋ | dark sky | ๊น๋ง (black), ํ๋ (sky) |
๋ณด๋๋น | purple light | ๋ณด๋ผ (purple) + ๋น (light) |
๋ฌ๋น | moonlight | ๋ฌ (moon) + ๋น (light) |
์๋ฒฝ | dawn | early morning |
๋ณ | star | often metaphorical in lyrics |
๊ตฌ๋ฆ | cloud | ํฐ ๊ตฌ๋ฆ = white cloud |
๋ฐค | night | Common in poetic settings |
haze (ํฌ๋ฏธํ) | haze / faint mist | ํฌ๋ฏธํ๋ค = to be faint |
fog (๋ฒ์ง๋) | fog (spreading) | ๋ฒ์ง๋ค = to spread |
๐ข Dream & Emotion
Korean | English | Notes |
์์ | imagination | ์์ ์ dream = dream inside imagination |
๊ฟ | dream | ํ๋ฆฟํ ๊ฟ = blurry dreams |
์์ํ | imagined picture | ํ (painting) + ์์ (imagination) |
์๊ฐ | inspiration | sudden or creative |
์๋ฏธ | meaning | noun |
๊ฐ์ | emotion | not in lyrics but related term |
๐ฃ Light & Color
Korean | English | Notes |
ํํ / ํํ | brightly / bright | from ํํ๋ค |
๋น | light | frequently used in metaphors |
๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ค | to sparkle, to twinkle | ๋ฐ์ง์ผ ๋ = when it sparkles |
flash | flash (literal/metaphor) | English word, symbolic use |
๋ฐ๊ฒ | brightly | from ๋ฐ๋ค = bright |
์ ๋ช ํ๋ค | to be vivid, clear | vivid like paint |
๐ด Action / Movement
Korean | English | Notes |
๋น์ถ๋ค | to shine on, to illuminate | ๋ฐค์ ๋น์ถฐ = lights up the night |
๋ด๋ค / ๋ด์ ๋๋ | to hold / I want to keep | poetic use, metaphorical |
์ผํค๋ค / ์ผํค๋ฏ | to swallow / as if swallowing | used metaphorically with fog |
์ฐพ๋ค / ์ฐพ์์ค๋ค | to find / to come find | ์๊ฐ์ ์ฐพ์์ = inspiration comes |
๊นจ์ฐ๋ค / ๊นจ์ฐ์์ | to wake (someone) / doesnโt it wake me | -์์ = confirmative tone |
์ด๋๋ค / ์ด๋๋ | to lead, to guide | poetic or metaphorical |
๋ ์์ค๋ฅด๋ค | to fly up | often symbolic in K-pop lyrics |
์ฑ์ฐ๋ค / ์ฑ์ ๋๊ฐ | to fill / fill and move on | with ๋๊ฐ๋ค to show continuation |
๐ง GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS
1.
-์/ใน ๋
โ โWhenโ
๋ฐ์ง์ผ ๋ = When (it) sparkles
Used to express the time something happens.
2.
-๋ฏ(์ด)
โ โAs if / Likeโ
์ผํค๋ฏ ๋ฒ์ง๋ fog = Fog spreads as if to swallow (me)
์ด๋๋ ๋ฏ์ด ๋ ์์ฌ๋ผ = Fly up as if being guided
3.
-์์
โ โYou knowโฆ, Right?โ (confirming tone)
๋๋ฅผ ๊นจ์ฐ์์ = It wakes me up, doesnโt it?
Softens a statement and seeks agreement.
4.
-๊ธฐ์
โ โBecause / Sinceโ (reason/cause)
๋น๋๊ธฐ์ = Because it shines
Formal and often poetic; gives reason.
5.
-(์ผ)๋ฉด์ / -๊ณ ๋์ / ๋๊ฐ๋ค
(progressive / continuous aspect)
์ฑ์ ๋๊ฐ = Keep filling
-์/์ด ๋๊ฐ๋ค shows ongoing or forward movement.
6.
-๊ณ ์ถ๋ค / -ใน๋์
โ โI want to / Shall Iโ
๋ด์ ๋๋ = I want to hold it / keep it inside
-ใน๋(์) is casual/polite for expressing intention.
7.
-์ฒ๋ผ
โ โLike / Asโ
๋ณ์ฒ๋ผ ํผ์ณ์ง๋ = Spreading like stars
8.
-๊ฒ ๋๋ค / -์ด์ง๋ค
โ Passive / Change of state
๋ฉ์ด์ง๋ = Becoming distant
์ปค์ ธ๊ฐ = Becoming bigger