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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "믿다" in Korean?
mit-tta. A clean 'ee', an unreleased ㄷ closure, and then a tensed ㄸ that the spelling gives no hint of.
mitda
Even weight on both blocks and a stop closure. Worth setting against 듣다, which looks nearly identical on the page and behaves the same way in the citation form -- but 믿다 is regular, so 믿어요 keeps its ㄷ where 듣다 swaps to ㄹ.
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Hear it in a sentence
저는 그 말을 믿어요.
Jeoneun geu mareul mideoyo.
I believe that.
Listen: 저는 그 말을 믿어요.
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저는 그 말을 믿어요 shows that regularity: 믿어요 resyllabifies the ㄷ forward, where it voices between vowels, giving mi-deo-yo with a genuine soft d. The object phrase does the same thing a beat earlier, 말을 running as ma-reul.
Where English speakers slip
Learners who have just met 듣다 over-generalize its irregular pattern and produce 'mi-reo-yo' for 믿어요, which is a different verb's behaviour entirely. In the citation form the errors are the usual pair: an audible release on the middle t, and a plain English d instead of the tensed ㄸ at the end.