I am currently teaching myself japanese and I was listening to a japanese song
and one of the words in that song was 生きて and as I am learning, I wanted to
see what the first letter meant (or radical, whatever its called) and saw it
is pronounced "nama" but when in the 生きてform is pronounced as "i". Why is this
and how exactly should i know what to say if it changes?
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kanji learning multiple-readings
Why does 生 change pronunciation. e.g. 生 = nama but 生きて＝ ikite