Keyword
language
Info
FrequencyTop 300-400
Type
Kyōiku (2nd grade) 
?
KankenLevel 9
Heisig371
Readings
(48%)
かた
(32%)
きょ
(3%)
がた
(1%)
Composed of
say
five
mouth
Mnemonic

Five mouths are saying something to each other in a language I can't understand. Russian spies perhaps...?

Used in vocabulary (1309 in total)
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
English (language)
word; vocabulary
Japanese (language)
word; language; speech
to make a speech; to address
honorific; term of respect; polite expression; honorific language
to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate
to talk together
(inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence
national language; Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan); native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)
term; terminology; wording; choice of words; phraseology
to pass down (a story) from generation to generation; to hand down
tone; manner of speaking
French (language)
account of a dream; fantastic story; wild tale; empty dream
outrageous; preposterous; scandalous; inexcusable; absurd; execrable
talk; recital; narration; topic
boasting; big talk; bombast; Australian English
tone (of voice); parlance; style; intonation; accent
to talk; to tell; to recite; to pledge; to conspire with
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
foreign language
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
German (language)
study of foreign languages; linguistics
to be misleading
Chinese (language)
to make a speech; to address
way of reciting; way of telling a story
human speech
to raise one's voice; to lift one's voice; to speak emphatically
rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller)
origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology
verbalizing; putting into words
Latin (language)
secret language; jargon; cant; argot; slang
to talk of one's dreams (esp. unrealistic, far-fetched ones); to dream out loud
Russian (language)
talk; chat; troth; lovers' vow
sense of language; feeling of a word; impression a word makes; nuance
to talk together
Italian (language)
big talk; boasting; bragging
polite language (e.g. masu, desu)
(the extent of) one's vocabulary
(professional) storyteller; hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court
words; phrases
archaic word; obsolete word; old saying; old adage; old language; ancient language
standard language (used in government, education, etc.); standard Japanese
The Tale of Genji (Heian period classic)
sound (of a sentence); euphony
common language; lingua franca; standard language (language variety understood throughout a country)
dead language; extinct language; obsolete word; word that has become passé
motto; slogan; catchword
language of one's country; mother tongue; native language
narrator; storyteller; reciter
word for word; one word
Spanish (language)
coined word; coinage; neologism
what language
pillow talk; conversation in bed; bedtime story
to let slip a secret; to let the cat out of the bag
the Analects of Confucius (one of the Four Books)
official language
faulty statement; misleading statement; misunderstanding caused by a misleading statement
ancient Japanese (as spoken in Japan until the Middle Ages)
story; topic (on everyone's lips); (the stuff of) legend
to say everything one wants to say; to exhaust a topic
monologue; soliloquy; German (language)
going on about oneself; talking about oneself
rakugo story teller; comic story teller
Japanese-language dictionary; dictionary of a national language
old story; reminiscence
to talk the night away; to talk all night
The Tale of the Heike; Heike Monogatari
Greek (language)
colloquialism; colloquial language; slang
to hand down; to pass on (story or tradition)
vocabulary notebook; ring of vocabulary flash cards
kanji compound; idiom; idiomatic phrase
to give a true account; to give a graphic account
rhyming game; play on words; pun
Korean (language)
abbreviation; acronym
analects; sayings
singing to one's own accompaniment; reciting while playing the shamisen, biwa, etc.
buzzword; vogue word; popular phrase
Arabic (language)
language learning ability; foreign language skills; linguistic ability
(linguistic) competence; language capability
English-speaking world; English-speaking countries; Anglosphere
four-character compound word (esp. idiomatic)
to be beyond words; to defy description
false rumour (rumor); groundless rumour; canard
irony; rhetorical question
round of ghost stories (trad. at night with a lamp or candle being extinguished after each story)
modern language; contemporary language; living language; modern Japanese; Japanese as spoken since the Meiji period or alternatively, since the end of World War II
spoken language; colloquial speech; (modern) spoken Japanese; written style based on (modern) spoken Japanese
Greek (language)
Portuguese (language)
every single word and phrase; each and every word
Hebrew (language)
technical term; terminology; nomenclature
translational equivalent; equivalent word in translation
Japanese word of Chinese origin; Sino-Japanese word; (ancient) Chinese language
command of English; proficiency in English; knowledge of English
indecent language; dirty talk
new word; neologism; word of recent origin; recent word; modern term
illustrated story
original word; original language
how many words
seasonal word (in haiku)
Japanese translation
to say everything one wants to say; to exhaust a topic
mother tongue; native language; protolanguage; parent language
origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology
emphasis (e.g. placed on a word); stress; tone (of voice)
vulgar expression; vulgarism
diction; grammar; syntax; usage; wording
loanword; foreign-origin word
take it from me; trust me, I'm talking from experience; word to the wise
modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)
Dutch (language)
four-character compound word (usu. idiomatic)
industry terminology; professional jargon; buzzword
casual language
counter for languages
aphasia; dysphasia
Japanese (language) version, edition
to pass down (a story) from generation to generation; to hand down
demonstrative
English version
programming language; programing language
language area of the cortex; speech centre (center)
language center (brain); language centre
story; topic (on everyone's lips); (the stuff of) legend
modern Japanese (esp. as a school subject)
German (language)
Beijing dialect (of Mandarin); Pekingese
English name (for a country, etc.); English-derived nickname (used by someone with a non-Western personal name); Western name
Cantonese (language)
meaning of a word
counter for languages
discriminatory terms
machine language; machine code
to be worth telling; to be worth confiding in
phenomime; mimetic word; word that mimics an action, condition, or manner that does not make a sound (e.g. "damp", "calmly")
false rumour (rumor); groundless rumour; canard
words you can't say on TV or radio; taboo words banned from broadcasts
indigenous language; local language; vernacular; native tongue
written language; literary language; classical (or formal) written style based on Heian-period Japanese
speech impediment; speech disorder
onomatopoeic word
counter for languages
everyday language; common parlance; vernacular
French (language)
meaning of a word
Tibetan (language)
Chinese (language)
glossary; vocabulary
Korean (language)
Ainu (language)
imperial rescript
romance (e.g. the Arthurian romances)
Japanese word constructed of elements from one or more English terms; pseudo-English word or phrase coined in Japan; wasei eigo
harsh language
speech; utterance; starting to speak; word used to start a sentence
Thai (language)
(professional) storyteller; hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court
collection of short Heian period tales in the form of poems
counter for languages
idiom derived from historical events or classical literature of China
saying nothing; understanding tacitly; without putting into words
Swahili (language); Kiswahili
Zen terminology; Zen words
Czech (language)
(specialist) terminology
teaching of English; English teaching
to talk the night away; to talk all night
honorific language
Buddhist sermon
Hindi (language)
colloquial style; written style based on spoken language
tragic love story; tale of tragic love
sociolect spoken in the Tokyo area by gyaru
onstage appearance of the jōruri musicians and chanters (in kabuki)
baby talk (e.g. "choo-choo" for train); words and speech patterns used by infants
rakugo research society; rakugo research club
sound of a word; sounds of speech; phoneme
Imperial Rescript on Education (1890)
Japanese language; native Japanese words (as opposed to Chinese-derived words and other foreign loanwords)
quasi-synonym (word that has a similar meaning to another, but is not interchangeable)
meaning of a word
katakana word; word written in katakana
discriminatory term; discriminatory language
account of a dream; fantastic story; wild tale; empty dream
to soften one's voice
foreign language
talking in delirium; incoherent muttering
one's native language; one's mother tongue
Indonesian (language); Bahasa Indonesia
conclusion; concluding remarks
explanation of a word (phrase, term, etc.); interpretation of a word
root (origin) of a word
Vietnamese (language)
quasi-synonym (word that has a similar meaning to another, but is not interchangeable)
whispering
dictionary of terminology; glossary
story; topic (on everyone's lips); (the stuff of) legend
(a story) so sad that both the speaker and the listener shed tears
talking in a delirium
Japanese-language dictionary; dictionary of a national language
word of recent origin; neologism; recent word; modern term
bragging; exaggeration
one's native language; Japanese
lover's whispers; sweet nothings; whispered intimacies; babbling (of a baby); babble
narrative-like structure; narrative style
headword (in a dictionary); entry word
Taiwanese (language); Taiwanese Hokkien
philosophy of language
Pali (language)
classical or dead languages
set phrase; idiomatic expression
degrading language (language used to lower the position of the listener)
German-speaking countries; German language sphere
Internet jargon; online slang
literary style; classical style
talking in whispers; confidential words
Chinese (language)
English (language); British English
Japanese philology; Japanese linguistics
word form
Japanese-language education (for non-native speakers)
critical remark; comment; grade (at school; e.g. A, B, C)
dictionary of archaisms
Polish (language)
hackneyed expression
forgetting the words; inability to pronounce a word correctly
Tagalog (language)
ironic; ironical
number of words
another language; different languages
Persian (language); Farsi
Japanese localization
Finnish (language)
Gaelic (language)
negative word
Mongolian (language)
kanji compound formed of opposing elements; antonym; conversation (face-to-face)
Turkish (language)
colloquial translation
onomatope (i.e. word formed by onomatopoeia)
colloquial writing; text written in a spoken form of the language
poetic diction
humble language (e.g. itadaku)
C programming language
business terminology; business jargon
a great many words; huge number of words
(a story) so sad that both the speaker and the listener shed tears
baseless rumor; baseless rumour; gossip; false report
thesaurus; dictionary of synonyms
Nepali (language); Nepalese
Hawaiian (language)
theatrical performance given in English
word usage; terminology
French-speaking world; francophone world; francophonie
you're not making any sense; can I have that in Japanese?
Persian (language); Farsi
Swedish (language)
technical term; technical terminology
you're not making any sense; can I have that in Japanese?
linguistic activity; language (as defined by Saussure; langue and parole)
Malay (language)
evening chat
same word
Japanese language (as a school subject in Japan)
Shanghainese; Shanghai dialect (of Wu Chinese)
inflection; conjugation; declension
to keep a secret when asked about it, but let it slip inadvertently when chatting on another occasion
first part of a word
outrageous; preposterous; scandalous; inexcusable; absurd; execrable
language of the natives; local language; native tongue; dialect; patois
compound word; compound term
language study; language learning
Danish (language)
word-for-word; verbatim
Japanese Language Council
to say everything one wants to say; to exhaust a topic
Hungarian (language)
corpus; linguistic data; text corpus
Egyptian (language)
to finish telling
(various) languages; language group; language family
linguist; language expert
international language; world language; global lingua franca; constructed international auxiliary language (e.g. Esperanto)
bilingual; in two languages
stem; root of a word
Western language; Japanese word of Western origin
Norwegian (language)
English version; English translation
both languages; both words
words mainly used in songs or poetry
Klingon (fictitious language)
Japanese word-processing
word used mainly in writing; literary language
knowledge of language
associated word
Frisian (language)
Irish (language); Erse
inflection of words (e.g. declension of nouns and conjugation of verbs)
Basque (language)
Celtic (language)
Mongolian (language)
linguistic aspects of life; linguistic behaviour
comprehension (of a word)
Samoan (language)
(study of) etymology
Edo dialect
rhyming game; play on words; pun
etymological theory; etymology
syllable repetition (indicating plurals)
well-shaped verse
flavor of literary style; flavour of literary style
ancient Greek (language)
talk; recital; narration; topic
international language; world language; global lingua franca; constructed international auxiliary language (e.g. Esperanto)
Quechua (language); Quechuan; Quichua; Quecha
elegant words; refined diction; poetic expression; classical poetic language (esp. of the Heian period)
modern Japanese (as spoken in Japan after the Middle Ages); Meiji and Taishō period modern Japanese
artificial language (e.g. Esperanto); constructed language; conlang; language for defining structures, logic, etc. (e.g. XML, HTML, etc.)
current (present-day) English
language family; family of languages
Okinawan (language)
English studies; English philology; English linguistics
word linkage
term used in translation; translation equivalent; word borrowed and translated from another language
Khmer (language); Cambodian
whispering; whisper; secret talk; sweet talk; sweet nothings; lovers' talk
Romanian (language); Rumanian; Roumanian
university of foreign studies; university specializing in foreign languages
group of languages (i.e. the Romance languages, considered as a subset of the Italic languages); group of words
halting English; broken English
the opening greeting on letters
Bulgarian (language); Bulgar
Russian (language)
written language; literary language
dirty word
Akkadian (language)
simplified language
(not even) a few words
Burmese (language)
Italian (language)
Tamil (language)
obsolete word
with a gentle face and a nice word
common saying; slang; argot
Welsh (language)
Western language
Latin (language)
wasting one's breath (trying to explain something); (lit.) (reading) the Analects of Confucius to a dog
Sumerian (language)
practical language; language used for day-to-day activity (in contrast to official languages); facility language
ancient Greek (language)
machine language
example of a word or phrase
bilingual; in two languages
dictionary of terminology; glossary
to put stress on a word
Sinhalese (language); Sinhala
baby talk; baby language
language of the enemy (esp. English in Japan during WWII)
Chinese room (artificial intelligence thought experiment)
related term; associated words
protolanguage; parent language
hybrid language; pidgin; hybrid word; portmanteau word
bilingual; in two languages
compound word; phrase; collocation; copula
Tensei Jingo; daily column in the Asahi Shimbun
derivative (word)
reserved word; keyword
verbiage; wordiness; tautology; blabber; chatter; unnecessary talk
Syriac (language); Syriac Aramaic
Japanese linguistics
Indo-European languages
Tokyo dialect (esp. historical)
American English
command language; control language
Ukrainian (language)
English proficiency test (esp. the STEP test)
Germanic language
rhyming game; play on words; pun
Filipino (standardized Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines)
quiet conversation; gossiping; idle talk
computer terminology; computer term
private school for the study of English
bilingual; in two languages
baseless rumor; baseless rumour; gossip; false report
langue d'oc; Occitan
different word; another word
lie; falsehood
everyday language; The Tale of the Heike
text written in literary style
multilingualization; multilingualisation; localization; localisation
Chinese (language)
basic vocabulary item
Uighur (language); Uigur; Uygur
polite Japanese as used by young part-time employees in restaurants, etc.
linguistic psychology; psycholinguistics (esp. from a psychological standpoint)
Romance languages
redundant keigo (i.e. improper use of the -rareru honorific form together with an honorific verb such as ossharu)
Slovakian (language); Slovak
Norse; Nordic languages (Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish)
knowing a theory without being able to apply it
verbal behaviour; language behaviour
substitute; placeholder
Altaic language
Chinese language (esp. as a college class)
young people's language
classical Greek (language); ancient Greek
Japanese (language)
reciting without samisen accompaniment
Spanish-speaking world; Spanish-speaking countries
conversation
conjugative suffix (i.e. "-iru" and "-eru" for ichidan verbs, "-i" for i-adjectives, etc.)
Berber (language)
middle of a word; within a word
Italian language (esp. as a school subject)
language construct; entity
global language; world language; languages of the world; world languages
pejorative term; derogatory word; invective
German (language)
Buddhist terminology; word related to Buddhism
do not speak untruthfully (precept)
Siamese (language); Thai
Marathi (language); Mahratti
language spoken by the Emishi; languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch); foreign language
Zulu (language)
cognate language
Burmese (language)
natural language processing; NLP
Javanese (language)
Croat (language); Croatian
Japanese Language Proficiency Test; JLPT
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
complement
language used by students; students' slang
don't be a sore loser; don't make excuses for your failures; (lit.) a defeated general should not talk of strategy
Iranian (any member language of the Iranian language branch, esp. Farsi)
words; speech; expression
Ancient Egyptian (language)
word-for-word translation; literal translation
sinophone world; Chinese-speaking world
Semitic languages
Breton (language)
Afrikaans (language)
predicate logic; predicate calculus
adult language; office jargon
acronym; initialism
Urdu (language)
Romance languages
silence
Amharic (language)
vocabulary word list
language used in red-light districts during the Edo period
Manchu (language)
rare word; unusual word; strange word
Edo-period Kansai dialect
Lao (language); Laotian
sending word by
foul language; abusive language
Coptic (language)
Altaic (family of languages)
Annamese (language); Vietnamese
scripting language; script language
hard words
portmanteau word
embellishing one's words (one of the ten evil deeds); embellished language; flowery language
bilingual; in two languages
military term
monolingual; homogeneous (language)
you're not making any sense; can I have that in Japanese?
Hangul language (improper neologism for the Korean language)
Cebuano (language); Cebuan; Bisaya
unknown language; unknown word
following a text word by word (e.g. when translating)
bilingual; in two languages
Filipino (standardized Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines)
parts of speech
Catalan (language)
counter for languages
computer terminology; computer term
Arabic (language)
modifier of an inflectable word
rambling talk
(linguistic) performance
agglutinative language
Assyrian (language)
secret language; code word; argot
modifier of a non-inflectable word
just a few words
inverted word; verlan
pidgin language; Pijin (language)
an independent word
Japanese word constructed of elements from foreign languages
to whisper; to murmur; to rumor; to rumour
Maori language; te reo
word root (the smallest portion of a larger word that holds meaning)
difficult word
Brazilian Portuguese; form of Portuguese spoken in Brazil
to speak in tongues
Late Middle Japanese; medieval Japanese; mediaeval Japanese
colloquial grammar; grammar of modern spoken and written Japanese
first word (of an infant)
you're not making any sense; can I have that in Japanese?
to conclude one's speech
Serbian (language)
counter for languages
spoken language (as opposed to literary)
portmanteau word
Kongo (language); Kikongo; Congolese
four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)
Slovenian (language); Slovene
Bengali (language)
Belarusian (language); Belorussian; Byelorussian; Belarussian
Albanian (language)
eye-to-eye communication
scary story; horror story
whispering; murmuring; talking in a low voice
ancient language; ancient word; Old Japanese; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period
usage; rules of grammar
basic multi-lingual plane; BMP
honeyed words; flattery
Lithuanian (language)
language island; speech island
near-extinct language; seriously endangered language
etymological dictionary; glossary; thesaurus; history of words
Hakka (language)
Ethiopic (language, languages)
sweet whispers of love; sweet nothings; lovers' whispers
Ilokano (language); Ilocano
words of greeting
heroic words; big talk; boasting; bragging; grandiloquence; rodomontade
Lepcha (language)
together with one's lot
Tajiki (language)
grudge; complaint; reproach
absolute respectful speech; absolute honorifics
bilingual; in two languages
saying whatever one feels; speaking at random; making careless remarks; rambling talk
Semitic languages
Latin (language)
Page Description Language; PDL
Flemish (language)
bilingual; in two languages
conjugated word
Rhaeto-Romance (language)
dependent word; auxiliaries and particles in Japanese
sound (of a sentence); euphony
Germanic (branch of languages)
language spoken by the Emishi; languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch); foreign language
lie; falsehood
(professional) storyteller; hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court
to say repeatedly (often by many people); to say over and over again
Pashto (language); Pashtu
Estonian (language)
Latin (language)
paraphasia
intermediate language; interlanguage
non-English-speaking world; non-Anglosphere
end of a word; suffix
Romansch (language)
borrowed word; loanword; loan word
street gossips and idle rumors; hearsay
Japanese language specialist; linguist specializing in Japanese
taboo word; forbidden word
Tangut (language)
independent word; free-standing Japanese language elements (not auxiliaries or particles)
Spanish (language)
French language (esp. as a college class)
quiet conversation; gossiping; idle talk
Greek (language)
Georgian (language)
branch of languages (i.e. Italic languages as a subset of Indo-European languages)
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
outrageous; preposterous; scandalous; inexcusable; absurd; execrable
secret language; jargon; cant; argot; slang
race game (board game where the object is to reach the goal first); trad. Japanese board games played with dice, esp. ban-sugoroku
race game (board game where the object is to reach the goal first); trad. Japanese board games played with dice, esp. ban-sugoroku
(the extent of) one's vocabulary
rhyming game; play on words; pun
rhyming game; play on words; pun
singing to one's own accompaniment; reciting while playing the shamisen, biwa, etc.
four-character compound word (esp. idiomatic)
vulgar expression; vulgarism
Thai (language)
bilingual; in two languages
bilingual; in two languages
Hindi (language)
Japanese language; native Japanese words (as opposed to Chinese-derived words and other foreign loanwords)
katakana word; word written in katakana
swear word; dirty word; coprolalia
Dutch (language)
sleep-talking; nonsense
Pali (language)
Min Chinese (language); Min
Min Chinese (language); Min
Min Chinese (language); Min
Japanese spoken (or written) with an excessive amount of English loanwords
word-for-word; verbatim
(spoken) epilogue; final words (following the main event)
dialect; language of the common people; colloquial language; slang
dialect; language of the common people; colloquial language; slang
Welsh (language)
verbiage; wordiness; tautology; blabber; chatter; unnecessary talk
Portuguese (language)
Portuguese (language)
classical Greek (language); ancient Greek
Urdu (language)
Annamese (language); Vietnamese
Brazilian Portuguese; form of Portuguese spoken in Brazil
Portuguese language
Proto-Indo-European (language)
Pashto (language); Pashtu
etymological dictionary; glossary; thesaurus; history of words
etymological dictionary; glossary; thesaurus; history of words
Hakka (language)
Kannada (language); Kanarese
Chinese (language); Qiang (language)
rhyme in a Chinese poem
idiom; idiomatic phrase
function word
humble language
word-length; word size
hand signals; flag signals
multilingual; in many languages
glossary; vocabulary
everyday speech; everyday language
study of syntax
Japanese text book; Japanese text books
Buddhist term; teaching of the Buddha; saying of the Buddha; words of the Buddha
mixed language; hybrid language; pidgin; word formed via contamination
hybrid term combining elements drawn from different languages
artificial language
similar-sounding words
linguistic geography
inflected language; fusional language
non-standard pronunciation
wild rumor; wild rumour
constituents of compound word
unprompted remark; unsolicited statement
isolating language
Sino-Tibetan (languages)
preface; editors note; postscript
lexical-functional grammar; LFG
Korean (language)
relative respectful speech; relative honorifics
Altaic (languages)
Indo-Chinese (family of languages)
Indic languages; Indo-Aryan languages
British English
British English
Bantu language (of the Bantu language family)
English proficiency examination; English proficiency test
predicate verb; predicator
adjunct word
noun equivalent (noun, pronoun, gerund, etc.); substantive
Kashmiri (language)
objective complement; noun or adjective following and modifying the direct object
discussion; consultation
Hopi (language)
syntactic
speech-impaired person; person with a speech impediment; mute
speech mixing words from two languages
speech mixing words from two languages
Proto-Indo-European (language)
Proto-Indo-European (language)
Hindustani (language)
Indic languages; Indo-Aryan languages
Indic languages; Indo-Aryan languages
Hittite (language)
Luwian; Luvian (language)
speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener
paralanguage (nonlexical component of communication)
women's language
creole (pidgin that has become a mother tongue)
Aboriginal languages (of Australia)
Aboriginal languages (of Australia)
Sino-Tibetan languages
Austro-Asiatic (family of languages)
Austronesian (family of languages)
Malayo-Polynesian (family of languages)
Malayo-Polynesian (family of languages)
Malayo-Polynesian (family of languages)
Afro-Asiatic (family of languages)
Hamito-Semitic (family of languages)
Indo-Germanic (family of languages)
Uralic (family of languages)
Sino-Tibetan (family of languages)
Sino-Tibetan (family of languages)
Dravidian (family of languages)
Dravidian (family of languages)
Niger-Kordofan (family of languages)
Niger-Congo (family of languages)
Hamitic (hypothetical family of languages)
Anatolian (branch of languages)
Albanian (branch of languages)
Armenian (language)
Armenian (branch of languages)
Italic (branch of languages)
Iranian (branch of languages)
Indonesian (branch of languages)
Celtic (branch of languages)
Slavic (branch of languages)
Slavic (branch of languages)
Tai languages; Zhuang-Tai languages
Turkic (branch of languages)
Baltic (branch of languages)
Bantu (branch of languages)
Finno-Ugric (branch of languages)
Mongolic (branch of languages)
Mon-Khmer languages
Caucasian languages
creating a noun by affixing "ku" to the end of an inflectable word (e.g. "omowaku", "osoraku")
appropriate word; apt word or expression; mot juste
Gothic (language)
written language; literary language
official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)
Kachin (language)
pejorative term; derogatory word; invective
elegant speech (esp. the use of the prefixes "o-" and "go-"); refined language; polite language
Icelandic (language)
theory of linguistic relativity
target language; object language
incorporating language; polysynthetic language
incorporating language; polysynthetic language
katakana dictionary; loanword dictionary
local language; local dialect
local language; local dialect
frame story; frame narrative; frame tale
protolanguage; parent language; root word; word in the parent language
homonym that has a native Japanese reading
passive vocabulary
predicate noun; predicate nominative
constituent negation; word negation
Tungusic language (esp. Evenki)
Southern Min; Minnan; southern branch of Min Chinese
Southern Min; Minnan; southern branch of Min Chinese
Southern Min; Minnan; southern branch of Min Chinese
Malayalam (language)
Computer Mediated Communication; CMC
Data Description Language; DDL
Data Manipulation Language; DML
Data Definition Language; DDL
narrower term
machine word; computer word
machine word; computer word
command language; control language
hypernym; broader term
technical glossary; terminology
collective term
fourth generation language; 4GL
fourth generation language; 4GL
half-word
partitive term
auxiliary inflecting word (in Japanese)
logic programming language
gender neutral word
classification of Japanese words by their origin as Japanese, Chinese or Western
Yi language
spacing between words
Kyōwa-go; Japanese-based pidgin language spoken in Manchukuo
Manchukuo dialect
Manchukuo dialect; Greater East Asian dialect
Japanese-Manchu language
linguistic map; linguistic atlas
endangered language
Romany (language)
Azerbaijani (language)
Ge'ez (language)
Ge'ez (language)
Illyrian (language)
Udmurt (language)
grammar of the classical literature; classical grammar
Etruscan (language)
langue d'oil
Punjabi (language); Panjabi
Punjabi (language); Panjabi
Maltese (language)
ordinary language school (of analytic philosophy)
story; tale; unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting
Imperial Rescript on Education (1890)
Imperial Rescript on Education (1890)
total number of words used (in a text)
Zhuang (language)
words you can't say on TV or radio; taboo words banned from broadcasts
language being translated to; target language
language being translated from; source language
Faroese (language)
English department (e.g. in a university)
Latvian (language)
tempo marking; tempo indication
stylistic marking (in music, e.g. "dolce", "tranquillo", etc.)
Shughni (language spoken in Pamir mountains in Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
lingua franca; vehicular language; bridge language; intermediary language
words used to describe tempo, dynamics, etc. in music; musical terminology
medial (in phonics)
illustrative word; example word
African American Vernacular English; AAVE; Black English; ebonics
coprolalia; uncontrollable use of obscene language
assistant language teacher; ALT; foreign national serving as an assistant teacher of English in a Japanese classroom
logogram; logograph
logogram; logograph
colloquialism; slang; proverb
word order
Elamite (language)
Ladin (Rhaeto-Romanic dialect)
courteous language (i.e. humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener or a third party)
humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.)
humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.)
humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy
humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy
Navajo (language)
Indo-European language(s)
national language; state language
male language; masculine language
Tahitian (language)
Tahitian (language)
vocabulary list
to talk together; to be close; to be intimate; to win someone over
twin talk; twin speech; cryptophasia; idioglossia
old people's talk; sociolect of the elderly
secret language used in the postwar Showa period where certain words are read backwards
secret language used in the postwar Showa period where certain words are read backwards
early modern Japanese; Japanese as spoken during the Edo period
Chinese; Korean; foreign language; language one doesn't understand
Chinese; Korean; foreign language; language one doesn't understand
first-person narrative
Internet slang
R (programming language)
word form used in literary language
word form primarily used in spoken language
Jurchen language
Ottoman Turkish (language); Osmanli; Ottoman
Korean (language)
Khmer (language); Cambodian
humble and honorific expressions; polite speech; honorific; term of respect; polite expression
sister language; related language; cognate
artificial intelligence language; AI language
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
English-speaking person; foreigner
rhyming word; rhyme
Malagasy (language)
Malagasy (language)
Tswana (language); Setswana
Telugu (language); Telegu
Gujarati (language); Gujerati
Kannada (language); Kanarese
Oriya (language)
Sundanese (language)
Kurdish (language)
Hausa (language)
Uzbek (language)
Sindhi (language)
Yoruba (language)
Somali (language)
Oromo (language)
Igbo (language); Ibo
Assamese (language)
Shona (language)
Madurese (language)
Fula (language); Fulani
Serbo-Croat (language); Serbo-Croatian
Miao (language); Hmong
Miao (language); Hmong
Rwandan (language); Kinyarwanda
Xhosa (language)
Xhosa (language)
Xhosa (language)
Igbo (language); Ibo
Chamorro (language)
Prakrit (language)
Yue Chinese (language); Cantonese (language)
artificial language
search term; search word
psychomime; ideophone depicting mental state or sensation
EIKEN Test in Practical English Proficiency; STEP test
neologism (esp. medical)
neologism (esp. medical); newly-named disorder
highest honorifics; honorific language mainly reserved for speaking of or to a member of the Imperial family
German language (esp. as a college class)
Spanish language (esp. as a college class)
Spanish language (esp. as a college class)
superstratum; superstrate
substratum; substrate
Wu Chinese (language)
Kapampangan (language); Pampangan (language)
Kazakh (language)
honeyed words; flattery
a narrow-minded person cannot understand the ways of the world; (lit.) a frog in the well cannot understand the ocean even if it is explained to it
Galician (language)
Finnish (language)
Finnish (language)
graded reader; limited-vocabulary reader
Dzongkha (language); Bhutanese
Cebuano (language); Cebuan; Bisaya
Lao (language); Laotian
mysterious words; confusing words
Japanese word constructed from Sino-Japanese elements; wasei kango
baby talk (used in talking to young children)
private-sphere language; language used in every day life; dialect
Walloon (language)
Arawakan languages
stories from one's childhood; children's story; fairy tale
Sorbian (language)
Tigrinya (language)
Tigre (language); Tigrayit
Manx (language)
Greenlandic (language)
Lao (language); Laotian
Catalan (language)
Catalan (language)
Dinka (language)
Esperanto
Swazi (language)
living language; conjugated word
Tongan (language)
international auxiliary language
Ido (constructed language)
vernacularism; colloquialism
Nahuatl (language)
linguistic rights
European Portuguese; form of Portuguese spoken in Portugal
European Portuguese; form of Portuguese spoken in Portugal
Hokkien (language); Fukien; Fujian
object complement; objective complement
Sami (language)
Sami (language)
Brazilian Portuguese
chat without food or drink
mixed language spoken by Japanese Brazilians
part of speech
pseudo-Chinese; Japanese written without kana for intelligibility in Chinese
Cia-Cia language; Butonese
Maldivian (language); Dhivehi
kana orthography (esp. historical) of native Japanese words
kana orthography (esp. historical) of native Japanese words
Early Middle Japanese
Japanese language school
newly introduced word (e.g. in a textbook); new word (to learn); new vocabulary
Oirat language
Oirat language
honorific expressions learned from company training manuals
babigo; language game of repeating each syllable with an initial "b"
Hiligaynon (language)
Waray (language)
Vietnamese (language)
Sino-Vietnamese word; Vietnamese word of Chinese origin
Vietnamese (language)
Hokkien (language)
Gan Chinese (language)
etymology of a word; history of a word
tone language; tonal language
tone language; tonal language
Examples (200 in total)
He doesn't want you to tell him about your sex life.
I want to speak about my love.
Many a story has been told about him.