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다양한 구문과 문장에서 쓰이는 "Just"의 의미

Q: "It's just that"은 무슨 뜻인가요?
A: To be honest the phrase "It's just that" isn't a phrase used too often but it has primarily 2 appropriate uses.

Use 1. When you or someone else is justifying their own actions. (not to be confused with explaining, It has to be used for justifying) so for example

Speaker1: Hey! why didn't you tell cathy I borrowed her hair dryer. I thought you promised earlier you'd tell her for me

Speaker2: Well I was going to but you see "It's just that", I was running late for class and then lost my car keys and had to spend most of the day looking for them. so I forgot, I'm sorry

The phrase "it's just that" being used in speaker2's dialouge isn't something she's saying to not annoy speaker1. Speaker1 Is already annoyed. She is using "It's just that" to let Speaker1 know she's about to give the reason for her action.( Her not telling cathy about the hair dryer) It's also the same in your example

"I'm sorry I struck you. I didn't mean to. It's just that I was so mad."

The speaker here is saying "it's just that" to let her know he's about to give the reason why he struck her. The "I'm sorry I didn't mean to" is the part being used to not annoy the listener

You can't use the phrase "it's just that" as an explaination for anything because it's used specifically as a response when justifying past actions and sometimes a belief or thought mentioned in the past. An example for a belief being mentioned in the past would be

Guy: Hey why do you think the color blue is so great.

Girl: Well it's just that it reminds me of the sky, and my favorite food blueberries.

The girl's Belief is that "the color blue is great" and because the guy already knows she likes the color blue, she is using "it's just that" to let him know she's justifying that belief

So in short you say "It's just that" before you're about to justify an action you did in the past or a belief of yours that was mentioned in the past.

Use 2. The second way you can use " it's Just that" is to refer to one object or living thing. A Conversational example of that being

Mover: Hey what else is left I need to move

Girl: Oh It's just that

So in this case the speaker is talking about the only thing left in the room, which is a piece of furniture like say a lamp or a couch. But most people when they use "it's just that" like this they say the name of the object afterwards.

So after the mover says

Mover: Hey what else is left I need to move

you'd say something like

"It's just that couch"
or
"It's just that Lamp"

This can also be used for living things so an example of that would be

Petcare worker: Hey, how many dogs are left that need to be washed

Petcare worker2: It's just that dog


Hope that answered your question. If any of this is confusing please let me know

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