colloquial language

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

Informal form of 話 (hanashi).

continuative of 話す

(transitive) to talk (about something); to speak (on a subject); to converse / to speak (a language)

in the middle of a conversation; on the other line of the phone

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

professional rakugo storyteller

Alternative form of 話 (“story”)

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