言

Meanings

say, word

ES: palabras, decir

Common words

• 言葉ことばlanguage, dialect
• 言ういうto say, to utter, to declare
• 言語げんごlanguage
• 一言ひとことsingle word, a few words, brief comment
• 言わばいわばso to speak, so to call it, as it were, in a sense
• 方言ほうげんdialect, provincialism
• 独り言ひとりごとsoliloquy, monologue, speaking to oneself
• 言い出すいいだすto begin to say, to start talking, to broach (a matter), to bring up, to come out with

Example sentences

• 言葉ことばが出でてこなかった。

  Words failed me.

  Me faltaban palabras.

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• さんざん小言こごとをいってやる。

  I give a good scolding.

  Doy una buena regañina.

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• その老人ろうじんは言いわば生いき字引じびきだ。

  That old man is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.

  Ese viejo es, por decirlo así, un diccionario caminante.

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• 彼かれらは南部なんぶの方言ほうげんで話はなしていた。

  They were speaking in a Southern dialect.

  Hablaban el dialecto de la región sur.

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