Hello! If you're still doing song breakdowns, I would love if you did Daisy by Pentagon <3 Thanks for the educational posts!
Sure! Thank you for the request and for your patience! I will link my full-length lessons of the grammar points I talk about if you want more information!
I rely on Naver Dictionary, the English subs on the music video, and colorcodedlyrics.com's translations to help me out with this! I hope you enjoy! 화이팅!
Vocabulary
거짓/거짓말 = Lie
기억 = Memory
사랑 = Love
아주 = Very
오래 = A long time
멀리 = Far
맘 = Heart, mind
상관없다 = To not matter
불행하다 = To be unhappy
꿈 = Dream
가물가물하다 = blurred, foggy
머뭇머뭇하다 = To hold back, to hesitate
차가워지다 = To become cold
미치다 = To be crazy
얼간이 = Fool
눈물 짓다 = To be moved to tears
구슬피 = Sorrowfully
Grammar
거짓말 같은 밤 거지 같은 기억 / 이젠 다시 돌아가고 싶지 않아
An unbelievable night, awful memories / I don’t want to go back again
[noun] + 같은 + [noun]
The adjective 같다 means "to be like" or "to be similar." Attaching -ㄴ/은 to its stem turns it into its noun-modifying form, meaning it can be used to describe nouns. 거짓말 같은 밤 literally means "a night that is like a lie."
거지같다, according to Naver Dictionary, is a standalone adjective meaning unsatisfactory or disagreeable.
[verb stem] + 고 싶다
This structure means "to want to [verb]." 돌아가다 means "to go back," so 돌아가고 싶다 means "to want to go back." Attaching -지 않다 to this stem means "to not want to go back."
네가 뭘 하든 간에 아무 상관없고 / 그냥 불행하길 바라
It doesn’t matter what you do / I just hope you’re unhappy
-든(지) 간에
This structure has the meaning of "whether." Literally, the first line could means "whether you do what, it doesn't matter."
-길 바라다
This structure is used to say that you hope something happens. 부행하길 바라다 means "to hope that [someone] is unhappy." You will probably also see 바라다 conjugated as 바래(요).
내 꿈속의 한 송이의 데이지 / 난 그 사랑에 데이지 / 너 하나 없을 뿐인데 / 미칠 것 같아
The one daisy in my dream / A daisy of love / It's just you who isn't here / I think I’ll go crazy
송
In Korean, there are things called counters, which are used when talking about the numbers of objects. Different kinds of objects use different counters; flowers, for example, use the counter 송. 한 송이의 데이지 means "one flower." You could also phrase it 데이지 한 송.
-을 뿐이다
This structure, in short, means "it's just" or "it's only."
-ㄹ/을 것 같다
This structure is used when you want to say that you think something will happen or that something seems like it will happen. 미칠 것 같아 means "I think I'm going to go crazy."
얼간이처럼 너를 죽도록 너를 / 사랑했는데 고작 이게 뭐야
Like a fool, I loved you / to death, so what is this?
[noun] + 처럼
This means "like [noun]." 얼간이처럼 means "like a fool."
[verb stem] + 도록
This structure means "so that" or "to the point where." 죽도록 너를 사랑했는데 literally means "I loved you to the point where I died."
-ㄴ/은/는데
This has a few different usages, but in this case, it essentially provides context for the following clause. It can also show contrast and mean "but." In this case, the speaker is asking, despite loving this person so much, what's going on now?
고작
고작 means "only, just, barely." I'm not entirely sure how it adds meaning to this line, but it's a common word in Korean!
못다한 말들이 있어서 왔네요
I came because I still have things to say
-아/어/여서
This means "because." Attach it to the verb of the clause with the reason. In this case, 있어서 means "because I have."
-네(요)
This is a sentence ending expressing surprise or admiration. This line might be expressing surprise at the fact that they returned.
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