Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
- (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
- (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
- (transitive) To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
- (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
Substantiivi
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- A lecture.
- (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
- (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenage) child about a reality of life; in particular:
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- (US) A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
- (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
Esimerkit
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[...]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
- We need to have a talk about your homework.
- There's a talk about Shakespeare on tonight.
- She is the talk of the day. The musical is the talk of the town.
- The party leader's speech was all talk.
- Although I don't speak Chinese I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.
- Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
- I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.
- Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all. [...] It was a chance he was offering me, a wonderful, eighteen carat, solid gold chance.
- They sat down to talk business. We're not talking rocket science here: it should be easy.
- They sat down to talk business. We talk French sometimes.
- Suppose he talks? She can be relied upon not to talk. They tried to make me talk.
- I am not the one to talk. She is a fine one to talk. You should talk. Look who's talking.
- “[...] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
- People will talk. Aren't you afraid the neighbours will talk?
- Why don’t the two of us sit down and have a talk?
- The scientist gave a talk before his colleagues.
- There’s a talk about Shakespeare on tonight.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | talked | Partisiipin perfekti | talk'd (vanhentunut) |
| Imperfekti | talked | Imperfekti | talk'd (vanhentunut) |
| Partisiipin preesens | talking | Monikko | talks |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | talks | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | talketh (vanhahtava) |