To Speak
To Talk
transitive verb, godan verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means talk so the verb version of this is to talk or to speak.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you:
Whenever you begin to speak, 花s (はな) flutter out of your mouth and fill the room. You're just such a good speaker, and you use such beautiful, flowery language that literal 花s fly out of your mouth when you talk. Your breath must smell lovely.
道で他人と話すことは、ほぼありません。
I rarely talk to others on the street.
今回のミーティングでは、主に米国の牛肉のことを話しました。
At this meeting, we mainly talked about American beef.
毎日、ディナーの後に電話で友人と話します。
Every day, I talk to a friend over the phone after dinner.