Hi,im new,i dont know if im missing something,i learned hira and kata already and just started learn kanji with this wanikani,i saw some word which sometimes change は sounds to わ
“一い(は)アメリカ人でした” for example
I thought it suppose to be “ichi ha” but it sounds weird,so i try translate using google and it change to “wa” instead of “ha”,am i missing something?
Im sorry if anything i did here break rule,or misplace or something
Yes, the particle は is wa and not ha.
Where did you find that sentence?
The kana は is only pronounced わ when it is being used as a particle. In every other case they retain their normal pronunciation.
It’s a WK context sentence for 一: https://www.wanikani.com/vocabulary/一
Slightly off-topic, but just so you know, you left off an i in your transcription: ichi’i wa
(Many of the context sentences leave out kanji that you haven’t been exposed to yet, but more fully this would be 一位はアメリカ人でした。)
Yeah, the lack of kanji for 位 threw me off and so I distrusted the full thing. Along with the parentheses for は, which I guess were added by the OP for emphasis. Now it makes sense.
Owh,i see,thanks for the reply.
not in こんにちは - this is the only word (I know of), where は is read “wa”.
I think that’s technically because it is a shortened version of a phrase, in which it was a particle.
Yeah, the は in こんにちは or こんばんは is a particle.
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