Pronouncing Final Consonants

All the consonants except for ㄸ, ㅃ and ㅉ can be final consonants. However, there are only seven final consonant sounds when pronouncing individual syllables. These are called Batchim (받침) and have their own sound:

Consonant	Sound	Example	Pronounce	Meaning
ㄱ	k/g	극장	keug-jang	cinema
ㄴ	n	눈	nun	eye; snow
ㄷ	t/d	듣기	teud-gi	listening
ㄹ	r/l	발	pal	foot
ㅁ	m	음악	eum-ak	music
ㅂ	p/b	밥	pab	cooked rice; meal
ㅇ	ng	싱가포르	shing-ga-po-reu	Singapore

Other final consonants take on one of the above seven end consonant sounds:

Consonant	Sound	Example	Pronounce	Meaning
ㅋ	k (ㄱ)	부엌	pu-eok	kitchen
ㄲ	k (ㄱ)	깎다	kkak-da	cut down
ㅅ	t (ㄷ)	옷	ot	clothes
ㅆ	t (ㄷ)	샀다	sat-da	bought
ㅈ	t (ㄷ)	낮	nat	daytime
ㅊ	t (ㄷ)	꽃	kkot	flower
ㅌ	t (ㄷ)	끝	kkeut	end
ㅎ	t (ㄷ)	히읗	hi-eut	name of  Korean letter ‘ㅎ’
ㅍ	p (ㅂ)	앞	ap	front

From this 2nd table, what I'm trying to say is :

~For example, we take 샀다 (sat-da) From what you've learned before, don't you think that it was supposed to pronounced as sas-da, but why I wrote sat-da instead? The reason is because, there are some Korean words that supposed to be pronounced like that. As soon as you learn more, you'll recognized more words. 

If you have any confusion, pls don't hesitate to ask me.


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