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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "잎" in Korean?
ip. One clipped syllable: a bare 'ee' and a ㅍ whose aspiration final position strips away entirely.
ip
A clipped single block. The word is the mirror of 앞: same consonant, same neutralization, and the same recovery of aspiration once a vowel follows it.
Listen: 잎
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Hear it in a sentence
가을에 잎이 떨어져요.
Gaeure ipi tteoreojyeoyo.
The leaves fall in autumn.
Listen: 가을에 잎이 떨어져요.
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가을에 잎이 떨어져요 attaches the subject particle, so the ㅍ moves forward and recovers its puff, giving i-pi. Then 떨어져요 opens on a tensed ㄸ and drops the y-glide of 져, coming out tteo-reo-jeo-yo.
Where English speakers slip
Aspirating the final consonant in the bare word is the first error and releasing it is the second, and both come from reading the letter rather than the position. Then, in 잎이, learners who have learned to suppress the puff suppress it there too, where it genuinely belongs.