song vocab

๐ŸŒŸ VOCAB LIST (Grouped by theme)

๐Ÿ”ต Nature & Imagery

Korean

English

Notes

๊นŒ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋Š˜

dark sky

๊นŒ๋งŒ (black), ํ•˜๋Š˜ (sky)

๋ณด๋ž๋น›

purple light

๋ณด๋ผ (purple) + ๋น› (light)

๋‹ฌ๋น›

moonlight

๋‹ฌ (moon) + ๋น› (light)

์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ

dawn

early morning

๋ณ„

star

often metaphorical in lyrics

๊ตฌ๋ฆ„

cloud

ํฐ ๊ตฌ๋ฆ„ = white cloud

๋ฐค

night

Common in poetic settings

haze (ํฌ๋ฏธํ•œ)

haze / faint mist

ํฌ๋ฏธํ•˜๋‹ค = to be faint

fog (๋ฒˆ์ง€๋Š”)

fog (spreading)

๋ฒˆ์ง€๋‹ค = to spread

๐ŸŸข Dream & Emotion

Korean

English

Notes

์ƒ์ƒ

imagination

์ƒ์ƒ ์† dream = dream inside imagination

๊ฟˆ

dream

ํ๋ฆฟํ•œ ๊ฟˆ = blurry dreams

์ƒ์ƒํ™”

imagined picture

ํ™” (painting) + ์ƒ์ƒ (imagination)

์˜๊ฐ

inspiration

sudden or creative

์˜๋ฏธ

meaning

noun

๊ฐ์ •

emotion

not in lyrics but related term

๐ŸŸฃ Light & Color

Korean

English

Notes

ํ™˜ํžˆ / ํ™˜ํ•œ

brightly / bright

from ํ™˜ํ•˜๋‹ค

๋น›

light

frequently used in metaphors

๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋‹ค

to sparkle, to twinkle

๋ฐ˜์ง์ผ ๋•Œ = when it sparkles

flash

flash (literal/metaphor)

English word, symbolic use

๋ฐ๊ฒŒ

brightly

from ๋ฐ๋‹ค = bright

์„ ๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค

to be vivid, clear

vivid like paint

๐Ÿ”ด Action / Movement

Korean

English

Notes

๋น„์ถ”๋‹ค

to shine on, to illuminate

๋ฐค์„ ๋น„์ถฐ = lights up the night

๋‹ด๋‹ค / ๋‹ด์•„ ๋‘˜๋ž˜

to hold / I want to keep

poetic use, metaphorical

์‚ผํ‚ค๋‹ค / ์‚ผํ‚ค๋“ฏ

to swallow / as if swallowing

used metaphorically with fog

์ฐพ๋‹ค / ์ฐพ์•„์˜ค๋‹ค

to find / to come find

์˜๊ฐ์€ ์ฐพ์•„์™€ = inspiration comes

๊นจ์šฐ๋‹ค / ๊นจ์šฐ์ž–์•„

to wake (someone) / doesnโ€™t it wake me

-์ž–์•„ = confirmative tone

์ด๋Œ๋‹ค / ์ด๋„๋Š”

to lead, to guide

poetic or metaphorical

๋‚ ์•„์˜ค๋ฅด๋‹ค

to fly up

often symbolic in K-pop lyrics

์ฑ„์šฐ๋‹ค / ์ฑ„์›Œ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€

to fill / fill and move on

with ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋‹ค to show continuation

๐Ÿง  GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS

1.

-์„/ใ„น ๋•Œ

โ†’ โ€œWhenโ€

๋ฐ˜์ง์ผ ๋•Œ = When (it) sparkles

Used to express the time something happens.

2.

-๋“ฏ(์ด)

โ†’ โ€œAs if / Likeโ€

์‚ผํ‚ค๋“ฏ ๋ฒˆ์ง€๋Š” fog = Fog spreads as if to swallow (me)

์ด๋„๋Š” ๋“ฏ์ด ๋‚ ์•„์˜ฌ๋ผ = Fly up as if being guided

3.

-์ž–์•„

โ†’ โ€œYou knowโ€ฆ, Right?โ€ (confirming tone)

๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๊นจ์šฐ์ž–์•„ = It wakes me up, doesnโ€™t it?

Softens a statement and seeks agreement.

4.

-๊ธฐ์—

โ†’ โ€œBecause / Sinceโ€ (reason/cause)

๋น›๋‚˜๊ธฐ์— = Because it shines

Formal and often poetic; gives reason.

5.

-(์œผ)๋ฉด์„œ / -๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ / ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋‹ค

(progressive / continuous aspect)

์ฑ„์›Œ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€ = Keep filling

  • -์•„/์–ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋‹ค shows ongoing or forward movement.

6.

-๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค / -ใ„น๋ž˜์š”

โ†’ โ€œI want to / Shall Iโ€

๋‹ด์•„ ๋‘˜๋ž˜ = I want to hold it / keep it inside

  • -ใ„น๋ž˜(์š”) is casual/polite for expressing intention.

7.

-์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ

โ†’ โ€œLike / Asโ€

๋ณ„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํŽผ์ณ์ง€๋Š” = Spreading like stars

8.

-๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‹ค / -์–ด์ง€๋‹ค

โ†’ Passive / Change of state

๋ฉ€์–ด์ง€๋Š” = Becoming distant

์ปค์ ธ๊ฐ€ = Becoming bigger