Customary signals made during a conversation to indicate comprehension or attentiveness; backchannelling.

appropriate, adequate, proper

appropriacy, adequacy, propriety

to hear, to listen / to obey / to ask a question / to smell, sniff

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

he; boyfriend

to hit, to beat, to strike / (baseball) to hit / (computing) to type / (shogi) to drop / to make noodles

negotiation; consultation; discussion / rumors; rumours / lecture; speech / talking; speaking; speech; conversation / story; tale; narrative / a topic; a subject; that which is spoken about

Counter for stories. / Counter for episodes of TV shows.