Hanamaruhanamaru

はなす

話す

speak

hanasu

JLPT
N5
Frequency
#2,157

Meanings

  1. 1
    to talk; to speak; to conversev5svt
  2. 2
    to tell; to explain; to narratev5svt
  3. 3
    to speak (a language)v5svt

JMdict 1562350

In a sentence

にほんご日本語Japaneseはなす話すspeakたのしい楽しいfun

Speaking Japanese is fun

How it works

The whole clause 日本語を話すにほんごをはなす (speaking Japanese) acts like a noun here: (nominalizer) bundles the action into a "thing", which (topic) then makes the topic. So it literally says "the speaking-of-Japanese, as for it, is fun". (object) still marks 日本語にほんご (Japanese) as the object inside that clause, and 楽しいたのしい (fun) describes the whole bundle.

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