Korean · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "입다" in Korean?

Q: How do you pronounce 입다 in Korean?

입다 is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ip̚.t͈a/. It means “to wear / to put on (clothes).” ip-tta. The lips close on the ㅂ and stay shut, and the following ㄷ hardens into a tensed ㄸ.

ip-tta. The lips close on the ㅂ and stay shut, and the following ㄷ hardens into a tensed ㄸ.

입다 /ip̚.t͈a/

ipda

Two beats with a lip closure between them. That closure is what makes the word feel abrupt, and its length carries information -- rushing through it removes the very cue that tells a listener a batchim is there at all.

Listen: 입다

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Sound it out

i A tight, clean 'ee' with no glide and no slackening toward the vowel of 'sit'.

p Unreleased ㅂ: lips together, no puff, no release. The consonant is identified by the silence rather than by a burst.

da Tensed ㄸ. The stop batchim in front makes this automatic, so the romanized 'd' is misleading here.

Hear it in a sentence

따뜻한 옷을 입으세요.

Ttatteutan oseul ibeuseyo.

Please wear warm clothes.

Listen: 따뜻한 옷을 입으세요.

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따뜻한 옷을 입으세요 releases the trapped ㅂ: with 으세요 attached it resyllabifies forward and voices, giving i-beu-se-yo. The adjective ahead of it, 따뜻한, meanwhile fuses its ㅅ batchim with a ㅎ into an aspirated t, landing as tta-tteu-tan.

Where English speakers slip

English speakers release the p and add a soft d, giving 'ip-duh', which gets both consonants wrong at once. The p should be a silent closure and the d should be tensed. Keep the vowel tight too, since letting 'ee' slacken is a small drift that compounds across every ㅣ in the language.