stand (platform on which a witness testifies in court)

platform / stand / rack / desk

testimony

to testify

(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

to stand, to stand up, to rise / to depart / to close / of something physical but not solid or liquid: to be released, to rise

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