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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "여덟" in Korean?
yuh-dul. The final block is written with the double batchim ㄼ, but only the ㄹ is pronounced -- the ㅂ is completely silent here.
yeodeol
Two even beats. What matters here is not emphasis but consonant cluster simplification: Korean will not pronounce two consonants at the end of a syllable, so one member of ㄼ is deleted, and in this word it is the ㅂ that goes.
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가게는 여덟 시에 문을 열어요.
Gageneun yeodeol sie muneul yeoreoyo.
The store opens at eight.
Listen: 가게는 여덟 시에 문을 열어요.
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가게는 여덟 시에 문을 열어요 hides the deleted ㅂ in plain sight -- 여덟 시 comes out yeo-deol-ssi, with the ㅅ tensed by the preceding consonant and no b anywhere in the stream. Later, 문을 열어요 delivers two clean resyllabifications back to back: mu-neul yeo-reo-yo.
Where English speakers slip
Learners who have studied the alphabet carefully try to pronounce both letters of ㄼ and produce 'yeo-deolb', which no Korean says. Only the ㄹ surfaces. Some others drop the ㄹ and keep the ㅂ, giving 'yeo-deop' -- also wrong for this word, though that outcome genuinely does occur with other ㄼ words such as 밟다. Learn 여덟 as ending in a plain l.