2022-08-26

Let's learn about "햇살 눈부신 어떤 날에 너에게로 갈게"

햇살 눈부신 어떤 날에 너에게로 갈게 : I'll go to you ina shining day

* The above sentence is from a Korean poem

[other expressions]

- 햇살 눈부신 어떤 날에 너에게로 갈게. (to younger poeple or friends)
- 햇살 눈부신 어떤 날에 당신에게로 갈게요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 햇살 눈부신 어떤 날에 당신에게로 가겠습니다. (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)

[explanations]
* 해 : [=태양] the sun
* 살 : (1) [=나이] age; years (2) [=피부] skin; fresh  (3) [=신체 조직] fresh (4) [=지방] fat (5) [동물·생선·과일 등의] meat, [=과육] flesh
- 나는 그보다 세 살 많다 : I'm three years older than he
- 살(이) 찌다 : gain[put on] weight
- 햇볕에 살이 까맣게 탔다 : I have a dark suntan

* -살 : [=광선] ray; beam

* 햇살 : sun, sunlight, sunshine, sunbeam <-- 해(the sun) + -ㅅ(this inserted for easy pronunciation) + -살(ray; beam)
- 햇살이 방 안 가득 퍼졌다 : Sunlight flooded (into) the room
* -이 : a particle makes 햇살 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in consonant; this omitted

* 눈부신 : (1) [빛이] dazzling, glaring, blinding (2) [모습·광경 등이] dazzling (3) [활동·업적 등이] remarkable, wonderful, extraordinary, brilliant
* 눈부시게 : an adverb form of 눈부신 by -게
* 눈부시다 : a verb form of 눈부신
- 다이아몬드가 눈부시게 빛났다 : The diamond sparkled with dazzling brilliance
- 그녀는 눈부시게 아름다웠다 : She was dazzlingly beautiful
- 그는 눈부신 활약을 했다 : He made a brilliant exploit (in)

* 어떤 : (1) [여럿 중에서] what, which (2) [특성·성격·상태 등을 물을 때] how (3) [뚜렷하지 않은] some, certain, (slng) this
- 어떤 음식을 좋아하세요? : What kind of food do you like?
- 나는 그가 어떤 기분일지 잘 알고 있다 : I know quite well how he must feel
- 간밤에 어떤 이상한 남자를 만났다 : I met this weird guy last night

* 날 : day
* -에 : a time suffix

* 너 : you (non-honourific word)
* 당신 : you (this expresses honourific nuance in this case. that is to say, this can be only used when the other person is not in front of you)

* -에게 = 에게로 : to; toward; unto

* 가다 : go
* 갈게 : 가(the stem of 가다) + -ㄹ(a particle makes a verb future tense) + -게(one’s will)
* 갈게요 : 가(the stem of 가다) + -ㄹ(a particle makes a verb future tense) + -게(one’s will) + -요(an honourific verb ending suffix)
* 가겠습니까? : 가(the stem of 가다) + -겠(one’s possibility) + -스(a particle makes a verb more honourific) + ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -ㄹ게 / -ㄹ게요 / -겠습니다: I will ~

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