the usual, ordinary

pleasant, delightful, fun, enjoyable

always, invariably, all the time / usually / (with a negative verb) never

happily

話, 話し, 噺: talk, conversation; topic; story

Alternative form of 話 (“story”)

professional rakugo storyteller

Informal form of 話 (hanashi).

continuative of 話す

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend