-겠-
get
The screen inside your head: -겠-
The picture Playing, on the screen inside your head, a scene that has not happened yet. -겠- is a picture you light up this very moment; -(으)ㄹ 거예요 is a plan already written on the calendar.
Where the picture shows up in -겠-
-
the scene I am already in
제가 하겠습니다.
je-ga ha-get-seum-ni-da
I'll do it.
A job not yet begun, and already a picture of me doing it is up on the screen in my head
-
tomorrow's picture
내일은 비가 오겠어요.
nae-i-reun bi-ga o-ge-sseo-yo
It's going to rain tomorrow.
You look at the thick clouds outside and tomorrow's wet road lights up in your head first
-
the picture has landed
네, 알겠습니다.
ne, al-get-seum-ni-da
Yes, understood.
Someone's instructions finish laying themselves out as a scene in your head, and then you nod
알겠습니다 is softer than 알았습니다, and it is what people actually say at work.
-
the picture your eyes start
우와, 맛있겠다!
u-wa, ma-sit-get-da
Wow, that looks delicious!
The plate arrives and the picture of biting into it runs in your head before your hand moves
-
a picture of someone else's day
많이 힘드시겠어요.
ma-ni him-deu-si-ge-sseo-yo
That must be really hard for you.
You load the other person's day onto your own screen and your face winces at it
All of it in one picture
-겠- is one switch that lights up the screen in your head. Put yourself into that picture and it becomes intention; let tomorrow's rain appear there and it becomes a guess; let someone's words finish laying themselves out and you get 알겠습니다. A plate turns the screen on and you gasp; someone else's day on that screen turns into sympathy. So anything carrying -겠- brings with it the feeling of a scene not in front of you yet, played once, right now.