語ります（かたります、katarimasu）
- to narrate

The Japanese verb 語ります 語ります, read かたります, means "to tell," "to speak," "to relate," "to narrate," or "to recount." It implies conveying information, stories, or experiences, often in a formal or narrative style. It suggests the act of communicating using language. The subject usually relates something that has happened, or something they know to someone else. It can also imply sharing one's thoughts or feelings. The core idea is the act of verbal expression and conveying content.

⚫︎彼語ります Translation: He tells a story. ⚫︎私は昨日の出来事を語ります Translation: I will tell the events of yesterday. ⚫︎彼女は自分の経験を語りました Translation: She related her own experiences.

⚫︎ Use 語ります 語ります when you want to express the act of telling, narrating, or recounting something. ⚫︎ It is appropriate in a variety of contexts, from informal conversations to formal speeches and written narratives. ⚫︎ It is often used to describe sharing personal experiences, giving accounts of events, or telling stories. ⚫︎ It can be used to describe the act of speaking about something in detail or at length. ⚫︎ It is often used in situations where there is an audience.

⚫︎ The base form is 語る (katari). ⚫︎ The polite form, or -masu form, is 語ります 語ります. ⚫︎ It is typically written with the kanji 語 and hiragana ります. ⚫︎ The kanji 語 means "language," "word," or "to speak." ⚫︎ The okurigana (hiragana suffixes) is fixed as ります in the -masu form.

⚫︎ 話します (hanashimasu) - to speak, to talk. ⚫︎ 述べます (nobemasu) - to state, to express. ⚫︎ 伝えます (tsutaemasu) - to convey, to transmit. ⚫︎ 説明します (setsumei shimasu) - to explain. ⚫︎ 語る (kataru) - the dictionary form of 語ります

⚫︎ There isn't a direct antonym for 語ります 語ります, as the opposite of speaking would be remaining silent. It depends on the nuance. ⚫︎ However, one could consider the act of *not* saying something to be an opposite, such as: 黙ります (damarimasu) - to be silent.

彼は子供たちに昔話を語ります。 ・Translation: He tells the children a folktale. ・Explanation: This sentence illustrates the use of 語ります to describe the act of narrating a story.

その作家は自分の人生を本の中で語ります。 ・Translation: That writer tells about his/her life in a book. ・Explanation: The sentence highlights how 語ります is used to convey telling about personal experiences or telling a story.

The verb 語ります is formed from the kanji 語 (go, meaning "word" or "language") and the verb stem る (ru, a verb ending). The kanji 語 combines with the verb to describe the action of using language to convey information. The word likely originated with the development of the Japanese language and its written system.