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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "옷" in Korean?
ot. One clipped syllable: a bare rounded ㅗ and a ㅅ realized as an unreleased t.
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One syllable, cut off by its own stop. As with 것 and 셋, the ㅅ is silent alone and returns the moment a vowel follows, so the bare word and the particled form differ more than the spelling suggests.
Listen: 옷
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Hear it in a sentence
이 옷이 아주 예뻐요.
I osi aju yeppeoyo.
These clothes are very pretty.
Listen: 이 옷이 아주 예뻐요.
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이 옷이 아주 예뻐요 restores the ㅅ: with the subject particle attached it resyllabifies forward and comes back as a real s, giving o-shi -- and because the vowel is ㅣ, it palatalizes too. Then 예뻐요 opens on a tensed ㅃ.
Where English speakers slip
Letting the final consonant go with an audible burst -- the t is the standing error with stop batchims. Then, in 옷이, learners produce a plain s rather than the palatalized sh the ㅣ demands. And a glottal stop before the initial vowel gives the word a clipped start it should not have.