(linguistics) respectful or honorific language

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

an elder / a scholar / a teacher or a professor / sensei (Japanese martial arts teacher) / sir, a polite form of address to teachers, doctors, etc.

a title used after the name of teachers, doctors, lawyers, or certain other professionals

(dialect, Hakata) teacher, professor

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

Informal form of 話 (hanashi).

continuative of 話す

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

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend