japanese speakin' folks, help me out. is there any situation where 一人 is pronounced any way other than ひとり (hitori)? jisho doesn't seem to think so. but the voice clip attached to the word in duolingo, like when it's one of the words you click to form sentences, says かずと (kazuto). in both voices!!! and it's driving me nuts

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so as it turns out, "kazuto" is a given name with exactly the same kanji. this is the only time 一人 is pronounced this way. it's pronounced "hitori" every other time

so naturally "kazuto" is the pronunciation duolingo went with

japanese is a pretty good language. duolingo is a pretty good language learning program

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