• 言げん

  word, remark, statement

• 言語げんご

  language

• 言及げんきゅう

  reference, allusion

• 言質げんち

  commitment, pledge, promise

• 言明げんめい

  declaration, statement, assertion

• 言論げんろん

  (one's) speech, expression of views, discussion

• 言動げんどう

  speech and conduct, words and actions, words and deeds, behavior, behaviour, manners

• 言ういう

  to say, to utter, to declare

• 言葉ことば

  language, dialect

• 伝言でんごん

  (verbal) message, word (from someone)

• 無言むごん

  silence (not speaking), muteness

• 明言めいげん

  declaration, statement

• 提言ていげん

  proposal, motion, recommendation

• 助言じょげん

  advice, counsel, suggestion, tip, hint

• 苦言くげん

  candid advice, frank advice, honest opinion, exhortation, harsh but honest advice

• 一言ひとこと

  single word, a few words, brief comment

• 宣言せんげん

  declaration, proclamation, announcement

• 予言よげん

  prediction, prophecy, prognostication, foretelling, forecast

• 断言だんげん

  assertion, declaration, affirmation

• 発言はつげん

  statement, remark, observation, utterance, speech, proposal

• 寝言ねごと

  talking in one's sleep, somniloquy

• 遺言ゆいごん

  will, testament, one's dying wish, one's last words

• 甘言かんげん

  sweet words, smooth talk, cajolery, flattery, sycophancy

• 証言しょうげん

  testimony, (verbal) evidence

• 狂言きょうげん

  kyogen, farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play

• 方言ほうげん

  dialect, provincialism

• 過言かごん

  exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much

• 小言こごと

  scolding, telling-off, rebuke, lecture

• 公言こうげん

  declaration, profession

• 言い訳いいわけ

  excuse

• 言わばいわば

  so to speak, so to call it, as it were

• 言い分いいぶん

  one's say, one's point, one's case, one's claim

• 言い方いいかた

  way of saying (something), way of putting it, wording, phrasing, language, expression

• 独り言ひとりごと

  soliloquy, monologue, speaking to oneself

• と言うという

  called, named, that says, that

• 発言権はつげんけん

  right to speak

• 合言葉あいことば

  password, watchword

• 物言いものいい

  manner of speaking

• 言いなりいいなり

  doing as one is told, yes-man

• 言い回しいいまわし

  expression, phraseology

• 言い表すいいあらわす

  to express (in words)

• 言い渡すいいわたす

  to announce, to tell, to sentence, to order

• 言葉遣いことばづかい

  speech, expression, wording, language

• 言い渡しいいわたし

  sentence, judgment, judgement, pronouncement, order, command

• 言い返すいいかえす

  to talk back, to answer back, to retort, to reply, to respond

• 言い切るいいきる

  to declare, to assert, to state definitively

• 言い出すいいだす

  to begin to say, to start talking, to broach (a matter), to bring up, to come out with

• どう言うどういう

  what kind of, what sort of, what

• 話し言葉はなしことば

  spoken language, colloquial expression

• そう言うそういう

  such, like that, that sort of