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I'm trying to learn/understand the lyrics of this song "우리 사랑하지 말아요", but I don't understand the end of this line:
사실 조금은 두려운 거야
Could some nice person help me? :)
I know that the verb to be afraid is 두렵다, and that "거야" is one of the future tense conjugations, but I don't understand why this sentence would be in the future or why the 운 comes after 두려.
Thanks in advance!
Here is a translation of the song that looks pretty accurate
https://ilyricsbuzz.com/2015/08/bigbang-lets-not-fall-in-love-lyrics.html
우리 사랑하지 말아요 아직은 잘 모르잖아요
사실 조금은 두려운 거야 그대 미안해요
우리 약속하지 말아요 내일은 또 모르잖아요
하지만 이 말 만은 진심이야 그대 좋아해요Let’s not fall in love, we don’t know each other very well yet
Actually, I’m a little scared, I’m sorry
Let’s not make promises, you never know when tomorrow comes
But I really mean it when I say I like you
-거야 is not necessarily future tense and 두려운 actually indicates this is not future tense
-거야 is most likely a more shortened informal version of 거예요
See here:
https://www.italki.com/question/198655?hl=ko
뭐하는 거야 = short for 뭐하는 것이야 (or 뭐하고 있는 것이야 in this case) 것 is a pronoun, used like 이것, 저것, 그것.
https://www.koreanclass101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2460
https://www.reddit.com/r/Korean/comments/4pqyc6/%E3%84%B4_%EA%B1%B0%EC%97%90%EC%9A%94_how_do_you_use_this_naturally/
