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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "여기" in Korean?
yeo-gi. A y-glide onto the flat ㅓ, then a ㄱ that voices into a genuine g because it sits between vowels.
yeogi
Two blocks, level and short. This is the near member of the three-way deictic set with 거기 and 저기, all built on the same second syllable -- so everything that distinguishes them lives in the first block.
Listen: 여기
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Hear it in a sentence
여기로 오세요.
Yeogiro oseyo.
Come here.
Listen: 여기로 오세요.
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여기로 오세요 attaches the directional 로 straight to the vowel-final 여기, so no extra syllable appears and the phrase is three smooth beats. Then 오세요 begins on a bare rounded vowel with no consonant to break the flow.
Where English speakers slip
Hardening the ㄱ into a k gives 'yeo-ki', which is audibly wrong because the consonant sits between two vowels and should be soft. The other slip is splitting 여 into two syllables, 'yee-uh-gi', when the glide and vowel are one beat and stretching them makes the word a syllable too long.