우리 같이 살까

How about We Live Together

These are translation notes for the mini drama series "banana actually." I'm using this series for korean listening practice. The language in it is pretty natural, and spoken rapidly. Even though there are korean and english subtitles, it's still pretty challenging for me to follow along and try to understand all at the same time. So I made these translation notes as a companion piece to the videos. The notes aim to point out and explain any unusual vocab, grammar points, and ways of speaking that you might not encounter in a text book. You can click the blue toggle-button below to hide the annotations if you just want to read the transcript.

Disclaimer: English translations have been modified from original english subs, in most cases to make them sound more natural, but in other cases, where I couldn't avoid it, I rearranged them to line up better alongside the korean source text, even when that makes them a little more clunky sounding. While I have had these notes checked by native and bilingual speakers there may still be transcription errors or flat out mistakes. If you find any, do let me know at (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk).

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한국어	English
이거 봐. 초록색 예쁘지?	Look, isn’t this green pretty?
응. 깔아 봐.	Yeah, go ahead, spread it
아 좋다	So nice
아!	Whoa!!
깜짝이야!	I'm surprised!
워! 아이고, 진짜!	Argh!!
나는 쉴게!	I’ll take some rest
놀러온 거 같지 않아?	Isn’t this like we are having a picnic?
찍는다!	Look here
하나, 둘, 셋!	One, two, three!
안돼! 나 먼저 씻을거라고!	No, I’ll go first
가위바위보!	Rock, paper, scissors
힘이 장사야, 장사!	What a strong girl!
열 둘!	Twelve
열 셋!	Thirteen
나 이거...	How...
이게 어떻게 올라가지?	How do you do sit-ups?
일곱!	Seven
아홉!	Nine
일단 한 번 더!	One more
어제 말인데	About yesterday…
나는 네가 자는 줄 알았어	I thought you were sleeping
Some sources only describe 줄 알다 in the context of "knowing how to do (sth.)". But it also has this meaning of thinking something was the case (that turned out not to be true).
잠들었으니까 괜찮다 했는데	Thought it would be OK because you were asleep
Presumably short for 괜찮다고 생각했는데.
아, 맞다!	Ah, right
내가 침대로 갔더니 네가 그랬잖아.	When I came to bed, you said
몇시야?	What time is it?
너는 은근히 잠귀가 밝더라고.	You are quite a light sleeper
잠귀가 밝다 is the idiom for being a light sleeper. It literally seems to be saying that one's hearing is accute even while asleep. 은근히 seems to mean "quite" in this case.
언제부터 어디서부터 무슨 소릴 들었을까 괜히 막 신경이 쓰이고 그랬어	I was worried about what you may have heard from when you were awake
I don't know why she's saying 언제부터 어디서부터...
너는 진짜 잘 자더라	You were sleeping soundly
우리가 TV를 안끄고 잤더라고	We left the TV on
끄다 is the verb for turning-off a light, or an electrical appliance or something like that.
그래서 중간에 한 번 깨고	so I woke up in the middle
또 너 화장실 갔을 때 깨고	And woke up again when you went to bathroom
냉장고 열었을 때 깨고	and when you opened the fridge
나는 내가 자꾸 깨서 너도 같이 깰까봐 신경이 쓰였는데	I was worried that I might wake you up too
와	But, wow
나 여자가 코 고는거 처음 봤잖아	I saw a snoring woman for the first time
코를 골다 means to snore.
근데 궁금한게 있는데	Anyway, I wanted to ask
너는 왜 자면서도 에어컨을 켜?	why do you leave the air conditioner on even when you are sleeping?
켜다 is the verb for turning-on a light, or an electrical appliance or something like that. I guess it can also mean "to leave something on" due to the context of (으)면서 grammar point?
내가 웬만해선 안 깨는데	I don’t wake up easily
해서는. Here the 는 is adding some sort of nuance or emphasis. I think it's making the fact of being 웬만하다 the topic of the sentence.
요샌 너무 추워서 가끔씩 깨고 그래	But these days, I wake up sometimes because it’s too cold
요새 apparently means exactly the same as 요즘.
몸은 엄청 차갑던데	Your skin was cold
Lit. Your body was cold. I guess a direct translation in to english it'd sound as if she was saying that he was dead.
너는 안추워?	But don’t you feel cold?
너 안더워?	Don’t you feel hot?
여름엔 집에서 이렇게 뜨거운 요리는 웬만하면 안하는게 낫지않냐.	Don’t you think it’s better to avoid cooking warm food at home in Summer?
한시간이나 그렇게 국을 끓이니까 이것봐. 습한거봐.	It’s so humid here because you boiled soup for an hour
그냥 대충 사다먹어도 될 것 같지 않아?	Why don’t we just have some take-out food?
그리고 너 왜 설거지는 안해?	And why don’t you wash the dishes?
너 왜 설거지는 안해?	Why don’t you wash the dishes?
그리고 이거	And this
My favourite. My friends call it 아저씨 커피. Tastes best when drunk from a paper cup.
너만 먹는거	Only you eat this in this house
Busted.
바로 옆에 쓰레기통이 있잖아	And there’s a bin right next to you
정말 딱 네 발자국만 걸으면 있는데	It’s just four steps away
Lit. If you walk four steps then it's there.
왜 여기다가 버려?	Why do you throw it here?
Again 다가 here is indicating that something is being added to the location, using one of the 에 or 에서 location particles wouldn't sound quite right because it would be referring to where the action of throwing-away is taking place.
버리는게 아니라 잠깐 올려둔거지	I didn’t throw it. I just left it there for a while
I thought 올리다 meant to raise or lift up, but it can also mean to put something somewhere? The 아/어 두다 auxilliary verb is implying that end-state of the verb is preserved, usually with a nuance that it's to prepare for some other future event or future use.
내가 수북하게 쌓아놓는 것도 아니고	It’s not like I piled them up here
여기 놔둔다고 냄새가 나는 것도 아니고	It doesn’t smell even though it was left here
쓰레기 나올 때마다 한개씩 갖다 버려야 된다는 법이 있는 것도 아니고	There is no law that says you have to throw garbage every time when there is one
법이 있는 것도 아니고	There is no law about boiling potatoes
왜 감자를 껍질 채 삼는게 이상하다는 거야?	Why do you think it’s strange that I boil potatoes unpeeled?
껍질도 먹는거야	People eat potato peel too
먹어도 돼	It’s edible
우리 집에선 원래 다 이렇게 삶아	This is how we boil potatoes at my home
삶을 때, 껍질을 까서 삶으면	If you boil peeled potatoes
아, 뜨거워!	It’s hot
이렇게 손으로 뜨겁게 안 벗겨도 되잖아.	You don’t have to peel the hot potatoes like this
벗겨줄게	I will peel it for you
아이씨 야해	That sounds dirty
Heh heh. 벗기다 also means to undress/strip off clothing. It's the passive form of 벗다. So what she said could have sounded like "I'll undress you."
뭐야 먹어	Shut up. Here
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우리 같이 살까?	How about we live together
#동거에 대한 로망	#fantasy about living together
Native korean words tend not to start with ㄹ. It's anyones guess how 로망 got the meaning of fantasy. Sounds like a french loanword but the french for fantasy is fantaisie, the french for novel is roman though.

우리 같이 살까

How about We Live Together

Main Dialog

한국어

English

Coda