Results, speech
- 言葉遣い☆【ことばづかい】言葉使い・言葉づかい Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- speech; expression; wording; language
言葉遣いにはいつも気をつけるべきです。 You should always be careful in your speech.
- 弁★【べん】辯old・瓣old・辨old
noun:
- speech; tongue; talk; eloquence [弁・辯]
suffix noun:
- dialect; brogue; accent [弁・辯]
noun:
noun / ~の noun:
- valve [弁・瓣]
noun:
大阪弁ではラ行がスペイン語のように巻き舌になることがある。 Osakans sometimes roll their Rs like in Spanish.
- 発語【はつご・ほつご】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- speech; utterance; starting to speak
noun:
- word used to start a sentence - e.g. さて, いざ, それ
- 話★【はなし】話しirr.・咄・噺
noun:
- talk; speech; chat; story; conversation
- discussions; negotiation; argument
私はアンソニー卿のすばらしい話に夢中になっていました。 I was lost in Sir Anthony's wonderful story.
3時間議論したが、我々は話がまとまらなかった。 After three hours of discussion we got nowhere.
- 辞【じ】
noun:
- address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; words
- ci (Chinese literary form)
- ancillary word ➜ 詞
日本人でさえも接頭辞の「お」と「ご」の使い方を間違える。 Even Japanese people make mistakes using the prefixes 'o' and 'go'.
- 口【く・こう】
noun:
- mouth; speech [く] - Buddhism term
suffix / counter:
- counter for people or implements - usu. こう
- 発話【はつわ】
noun / ~の noun:
- utterance; speech
思考と発話とが相互依存することからわかるように、言語は、既成の事実を捉えるための手段というよりも、未知なる真実を見つけ出すための手段である。その多様性は、音声や記号ではなく世界観の多様性なのだ。 The interdependence of thought and speech makes it clear that languages are not so much a means of expressing truth that has already been established, but a means of discovering truth that was previously unknown. Their diversity is a diversity not of sounds and signs but of ways of looking at the world.
- 発言★【はつげん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
- 挨拶☆【あいさつ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:
- greeting; greetings; salutation; salute; polite set phrase used when meeting or parting from somebody
- polite set phrase used to express apology, sympathy, congratulations, etc.
- speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address
- reply; response
- revenge; retaliation - slang
expression:
- a fine thing to say - used sarcastically as a response to a rude remark; usu. in the form of ご挨拶 - humorous term
- dialoging (with another Zen practitioner to ascertain their level of enlightenment) - orig. meaning ➜ 一挨一拶
noun:
- relationship (between people); connection - archaism
- intervention; mediation; mediator - archaism
彼女はにっこり挨拶をした。 She greeted us with a smile.
この場をお借りして一言挨拶を申し上げます。 Please allow me to say a few words on this occasion.
- 白【はく】
noun:
- white
- striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus) ➜ 鯔【ぼら】
- speech; one's lines ➜ せりふ
- white dragon tile - Mahjong term
- winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles - Mahjong term
- white person; Caucasian - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 白人
prefix noun / suffix noun / noun:
- Belgium - abbreviation - obscure term ➜ ベルギー
- 口★【くち】
noun:
- mouth
- opening; hole; gap; orifice
- mouth (of a bottle); spout; nozzle; mouthpiece
- gate; door; entrance; exit
- speaking; speech; talk (i.e. gossip) ➜ 口を利く
- taste; palate ➜ 口に合う
- mouth (to feed)
- opening (i.e. vacancy); available position ➜ 働き口
- invitation; summons ➜ 口がかかる
- kind; sort; type
- opening (i.e. beginning)
suffix / counter:
- counter for mouthfuls, shares (of money), and swords
椅子に横たわる私に、歯科衛生士の女性が 「はい、お口を開けてください」と言ったのです。 The woman dental hygienist said to me, lying down in the chair, "Right, please open your mouth."
私たちはそのまま洞窟の口にボートで突っ込んで行きました。 We plunged into the cave opening on our boat and continued on.
瓶の口までいっぱいに入れて空気が入らないようにしなさい。 Fill the bottle to the top so as to exclude all air.
あの人は口と腹が反対だ。 He says one thing and means another.
私の口には合いません。 It doesn't suit my tastes.
外米はぼそぼそしていて、日本人の口には合わない。 Foreign rice is hard and tasteless, and doesn't appeal to the Japanese palate.
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