言葉

Saturday we learned about 語. Well here's one more way to say "language" in Japanese, but there's a slightly different sense here: 言葉（ことば）literally means "leaflet/incarnation of communication," 言 meaning "something someone says" and 葉 "leaf." You can use this word to refer to a dialect (京言葉 - "Kyoto dialect"), or to the words somebody is speaking (感情を言葉に表す (かんじょうを　ことばに　あらわす - "express one's feelings in words").

語

語 (ご) means speech, just in general. Used as a suffix it can mean "word", "language", or "term".
For instance, 合成語 (ごうせいご) would mean "compound word".　英語 (えいご), however,
is "English". 日本語 (にほんご), similarly, is "Japanese". Also, if you had to write a 1,000-
word paper, it would be a 1000語のレポート.




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