daiyokujou wa hiroi.

The large communal bath is spacious.

Breakdown of daiyokujou wa hiroi.

• は: topic particle
• 広ひろい: large
• 大浴場だいよくじょう: a large communal bath

Questions & Answers about daiyokujou wa hiroi.

How do you read 大浴場?

It is read だいよくじょう.

• 大 = big, large
• 浴 = bathe, bathing
• 場 = place

So 大浴場 means something like large public bath or big communal bath area.

Why is は pronounced wa here instead of ha?

When は is used as the topic particle, it is pronounced wa.

So:

• written: 大浴場は広い。
• read aloud: だいよくじょう は ひろい。 → with は pronounced wa

This is one of the first pronunciation exceptions learners meet in Japanese.

What does the particle は do in this sentence?

は marks the topic of the sentence.

So 大浴場は広い。 is roughly:

• As for the large public bath, it is spacious.
• The large public bath is spacious.

The sentence is talking about 大浴場 and then saying something about it: 広い.

Why is 広い at the end?