Breakdown of chiimu wa kinou shourishimashita.
Questions & Answers about chiimu wa kinou shourishimashita.
A natural reading is:
- チーム → chiimu
- は → pronounced wa here
- 昨日 → usually kinō
- 勝利しました → shōri shimashita
So the whole sentence is pronounced roughly:
Chiimu wa kinō shōri shimashita.
A couple of pronunciation notes:
- チーム is a katakana word borrowed from English team.
- 勝利 has long vowels: shōri.
- しました is the polite past form of する.
This is one of the first things learners notice.
When は is used as the topic particle, it is pronounced wa, not ha.
So in this sentence:
- チームは = As for the team, ...
But when は is part of a word, it is normally pronounced ha.
This special pronunciation only happens in its particle use.
