Be mine

• By: May J.
• Album: for you

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Grammar:

• I'll say I love you

  ➔ Future tense with 'will' + base verb to express a spontaneous decision or future intention.

  ➔ The phrase uses the modal 'will' to indicate a future action or promise.

• 感じてた

  ➔ Past continuous tense in Japanese, expressing an ongoing feeling in the past.

  ➔ '感じてた' is the past continuous form, showing an ongoing feeling in the past.

• 抑えきれない

  ➔ Potential form in Japanese; 'きれない' indicates inability to do something — here, unable to suppress feelings.

  ➔ The phrase combines '抑え' (to suppress) with 'きれない' (cannot), indicating an inability to control or suppress feelings.

• 変わらなきゃ…私が

  ➔ Conditional form 'なきゃ' (must/has to) from 'なければ' + colloquial speech, expressing necessity or obligation.

  ➔ This is a colloquial contraction of 'なければ', used to express necessity or obligation about changing oneself.

• 目を逸らさずに

  ➔ Negative imperative or request form, meaning 'not to avert one's eyes', showing determination or insistence.

  ➔ This phrase uses the negative form of '逸らす' (to avert), emphasizing maintaining eye contact or facing reality.

• 願う真夜中

  ➔ Noun phrase combining '願う' (to wish) and '真夜中' (midnight), expressing a wish or hope at midnight.

  ➔ This phrase pairs '願う' (to wish) with '真夜中' (midnight) to poetically symbolize hopes expressed during midnight.