#girl front

[nayeonline]

oh it’s time to ascend let me play girl front by loona oec

[a-pop-of-korean]

Hii! I find the way that you break down lyrics to be so interesting and so helpful, just wanted to say thank you for your work :] Could you please do Girl Front by LOONA? Thank you so much :>

Hi! Thank you for your patience and for the request! Here's the breakdown :)

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I used colorcodedlyrics.com to help me out with translating this song, as well as Naver Dictionary! Let’s start!

Vocabulary

눈을 떼다 = to take one’s eyes off of [something]

손대다 = to touch

위험하다 = to be dangerous

끌리다 = to be attracted/drawn

빠지다 = [in this context] to fall into [love]

뜨겁다 = to be hot [used to describe objects]

말리다 = to be stopped

다가가다 = to approach; to go towards

맘 = heart

고백하다 = to confess [usually romantic feelings]

눈을 뜨다 = to open one’s eyes

순간 = moment

바로 = immediately

차갑다 = to be cold [used to describe objects]

덥다 = to be hot [used to describe weather]

빛나다 = to shine

흐려지다 = to become blurry

깨다 = to wake up

가까이 = closely

Lyrics & Grammar

사랑이 뭐가 뭔지 A to Z 아직도 몰라 / 그냥 너에게 빠져있고 싶어 / (Yai-yai-ya) / 너를 향해 마냥 조르고 싶은 맘

I still don’t know what love is from A to Z / I just want to fall for you / Yai-yai-ya / My heart wants to bother you forever

[pronoun] + ㄴ/은/는지

Adding -ㄴ/은/는지 to a question word like 뭐, 누구, 어디, etc. allows you to say things like, as in this song, “I still don’t know what love is.” Likewise, you could say something like 그 사람은 누군지 몰라요 (I don’t know who that person is) or 화장실이 어딘지 아세요? (Do you know where the bathroom is?). This structure can be used with verbs other than 알다 and 모르다 as well.

마냥

마냥 has a few possible meanings. In this context, it means “forever.” Other times, it can add the meaning of doing something to the extreme.

[verb] + 고 싶다

This structure means “to want to [verb].” 조르고 싶다 means “to want to bother.”

[adjective stem] + ㄴ/은 + [noun]

This is how you use adjectives to modify nouns. In other words, you would attach -ㄴ/은 to an adjective stem if you wanted to use that adjective to describe the noun.

Although “to want” is a verb in English, 싶다 functions as an adjective in Korean. So, 조르고 싶은 맘 literally means “the heart that wants to bother you.”

니가 좋아 난 Cool / 일 분 일 초 내 생각은 전부 / 너로 가득 Baby I’m full / 점점 뜨겁고 / 점점 못 말려 / 점점 다가가 / 심장이 뛰어 Cool / Woo 어떡해 나 Cool / 이런 내 맘 / Woo / 먼저 고백할래

I like you, cool / One minute, one second, all my thoughts are of you / I’m filled with you, baby I’m full / More and more I get hot / More and more I can’t be stopped / More and more I approach you / My heart races, cool / Woo, what do I do, cool / My heart is like this / Woo / I want to confess first

점점

점점 means “more and more” or “gradually.” As shown above, it’s typically put before adjectives to express that something is becoming more that adjective.

[verb] + ㄹ/을래

This is another way to say “I want to [verb].” I think that this differs from -고 싶다 in that it implies that you have a strong intention to actually do the action, rather than just wanting to do it.

Oh boy 매일 눈 뜬 순간부터 / 바로 생각난 너란 사람 My boy / 넌 언제부터 내 맘 속에 들어왔니 Uh / (Hey you) / 차가웠던 내가 더워져 Wow

Oh boy, from the moment I opened my eyes / The person I instantly think of is you / Since when did you come inside my heart? Uh / Hey you / The cold me became hot, wow

[noun] + 부터

This means “from [noun].” It is usually attached to points in time. 눈 뜬 순간부터, for example, means “from the moment I opened my eyes” -- that moment is the point in time in which something began. 언제부터, similarly, means “since when.”

[noun stem] + (이)란

-(이)란 is similar to the topic particle -ㄴ/은/는. It’s usually used when talking about the less literal meanings of nouns. You could say, for example, 사랑이란 어렵다 meaning “love is difficult.” This isn’t about the literal definition of love, but a deeper, perhaps more metaphorical one.

너란 사람 literally means “the person that is you.” Since they’re talking about a person they constantly think about, this is more poetic rather than literal if that makes sense!

[adjective stem] + 았/었/였던 + [noun]

This is how you modify nouns in the past tense. Literally, 차가웠던 내가 means “I who was cold.” 

[adjective stem] + 아/어/여지다

This structure is used to express that something increasingly becomes more of the adjective. For example, 덥다 means “to be hot,” while 더워지다 means “to get hot.” 차가웠던 내가 더워져 means “I who was cold is getting hot.”

이런 내 맘이 Cool (Woo) / 그저 그저 내 맘이 가는 곳 / 니가 있는 난 거기에 (거기에) / 점점 가까이 / 점점 내 곁에 (No no no) / 점점 다가가 / 심장이 뛰어 Cool / Woo 식혀줄래 Cool / 내가 먼저 / Woo (Oh yeah yeah) / 사랑한다 말해

My heart is cool like this (Woo) / Just the place that my heart is going / I’m there where you are / Closer and closer / More and more beside me / More and more I approach you / My heart races, cool / Woo, will you cool it off? / I’ll tell you first / Woo (Oh yeah yeah) / That I love you

[verb] + 는 + [noun]

This is how you use verbs to modify nouns in the present tense. 내 맘이 가는 곳 means “the place that my heart goes to.” The verb, 가다 (to go), describes the noun, 곳.

[verb] + ㄴ/는다고 말하다

This structure allows you to quote something. 사랑해요, for example, means “I love you,” so 사랑한다고 말하다 means “to say ‘I love you.’“

Since this structure implies quotation, you could just use 하다 on the end rather than 말하다. Other verbs that are useful for this structure are 듣다 (to hear/listen), 생각하다 (to think), and 그렇다 (to be so (similar to 말하다 when used with this structure though)). The -고 from -ㄴ/는다고 can be dropped as well, as in this song.

That’s about it for this breakdown--I hope it was helpful! Feel free to request any other song you’d like to see broken down! Thank you for the request and for your patience! 화이팅!

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