To Talk
Transitive verb and Godan verb
はなす
女の人と男の人が写しんを見ながら話しています。
A woman and a man are talking while looking at a picture.
早く日本ごがうまく話せるようになりたいです。
I want to become fluent in Japanese soon.
あなたが話すのを聞いていると、なぜかいつも、紐無しで橋からバンジー・ジャンプをしているような気になります。
Every time I hear you speak, I feel like jumping off of a bridge without a bungee cord for some reason.
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:
Every time you try to speak, 花s (はな) just sprout out of your mouth preventing you. Imagine your mouth full of flowers. Taste them, spit them out, and try to speak again. Same problem.