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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "화나다" in Korean?
hwa-na-da. A w-glide after the h, and then two soft syllables with nothing demanding in them.
hwanada
Three beats over three identical vowels, which makes this a clean rhythm test: any inequality you hear is English stress creeping into a word that has none of its own.
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Hear it in a sentence
왜 화났어요?
Wae hwanasseoyo?
Why did you get angry?
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왜 화났어요? puts the past tense on it, so the ㅆ resyllabifies into the ending as a full double s: hwa-na-sseo-yo. The question word 왜 in front is a single glide-plus-vowel beat.
Where English speakers slip
Splitting 화 into 'hoo-a' adds a syllable to a word that has three, so keep the h, the glide and the vowel together. The other habits are over-blowing the ㅎ, when Korean's is lighter than English's, and reducing the two later vowels, which are as open as the first.