🌟 Day 30: Pronunciation Rule – When ㅅ (s) becomes ㄴ (n)

 

Hi everyone! 🎉
You’re doing an amazing job getting used to the sound changes in Korean!
Today, we’ll learn a unique and interesting rule involving the consonant ㅅ (s). Let’s get started! 💡

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🔍 Today's Rule

When the final consonant (batchim) is ㅅ
and the next syllable starts with ㄴ (n)...

➡️ ㅅ changes to ㄴ!

This is another nasalization rule (like the ones we’ve studied on Day 28 and Day 29).
It helps the sounds flow more smoothly when speaking naturally.

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🧠 Why does it happen?

Try saying this: 옷너머 (clothes + over/beyond).
The abrupt switch from ㅅ to ㄴ is tricky, right?

So to make it smoother, ㅅ transforms into ㄴ,
and the phrase sounds like 온너머 [on-neo-meo].

This change isn’t always reflected in writing, but it’s important in spoken Korean.

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📘 Examples

Korean Pronunciation Meaning

옷너머 (ot + neomeo)	온너머 [on-neo-meo]	over the clothes
못나오다 (mot + naoda)	몬나오다 [mon-nao-da]	can’t come out
곳마다 (got + mada)	곤마다 [gon-ma-da]	everywhere

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🗣 Practice Time!

• 옷너머 → [온너머]
• 못나오다 → [몬나오다]
• 곳마다 → [곤마다]

Isn’t it fun to see how Korean pronunciation bends to make speech more fluid?
Keep practicing, and soon you’ll sound like a native speaker! 🌈✨

Tomorrow, we’ll take a look at another useful sound change rule.
See you then! 👋