talk
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, MLE) IPA(key): /tɔːk/
- (US) IPA(key): /tɔk/
- (cot–caught merger, northern cities vowel shift) IPA(key): /tɑk/, /täːk/
- (AAVE) IPA(key): /tɔʊ̯k/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand, MLE) IPA(key): /toːk/
Audio (UK) – to talk (file) Audio (US) (cot-caught merged) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːk
- Homophones: torc, torq, torque (non-rhotic accents only), tock (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English talken, talkien, from Old English tealcian (“to talk, chat”), from Proto-Germanic *talkōną (“to talk, chatter”), frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *talōną (“to count, recount, tell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, count”), equivalent to tell + -k. Cognate with Script error: The function "cognate" does not exist., Script error: The function "cognate" does not exist.. Related also to Script error: The function "cognate" does not exist., Script error: The function "cognate" does not exist., Script error: The function "cognate" does not exist., Script error: The function "cognate" does not exist.. More at tale. Despite the surface similarity, unrelated to Templet:noncog, which is the source of loquacious.
Alternative forms
- taulke (obsolete)
Verb
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- (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act TEMPLET:A2R, scene templet:a2r], page 166:
- I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients, page 99:
- 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.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess[1]:
- 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.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Let’s go to my office and talk. ― I like to talk with you, Ms. Weaver.
Audio (US) (file)
- Let’s go to my office and talk. ― I like to talk with you, Ms. Weaver.
- Let's sit down and talk.
- Although I don't speak Chinese I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.
- (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
- They sat down to talk business.
- That's enough about work, let's talk holidays!
- (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
- We talk French sometimes.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- Are you interested in the job? They're talking big money.
- We're not talking rocket science here: it should be easy.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- Suppose he talks?
- She can be relied upon not to talk.
- They tried to make me talk.
- (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- I am not the one to talk.
- She is a fine one to talk.
- You should talk.
- Look who's talking.
- (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
- People will talk.
- Aren't you afraid the neighbours will talk?
- (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
- You're only sticking up for her because you like her; that's your penis talking.
- That's not like you at all, Jared. The drugs are talking. Snap out of it!
Conjugation
infinitive | talk | ||||||||||
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present participle | talking | ||||||||||
past participle | talked | ||||||||||
simple | progressive | perfect | perfect progressive | ||||||||
present | I talk | we talk | I am talking | we are talking | I have talked | we have talked | I have been talking | we have been talking | |||
you talk | you talk | you are talking | you are talking | you have talked | you have talked | you have been talking | you have been talking | ||||
he talks | they talk | he is talking | they are talking | he has talked | they have talked | he has been talking | they have been talking | ||||
past | I talked | we talked | I was talking | we were talking | I had talked | we had talked | I had been talking | we had been talking | |||
you talked | you talked | you were talking | you were talking | you had talked | you had talked | you had been talking | you had been talking | ||||
he talked | they talked | he was talking | they were talking | he had talked | they had talked | he had been talking | they had been talking | ||||
future | I will talk | we will talk | I will be talking | we will be talking | I will have talked | we will have talked | I will have been talking | we will have been talking | |||
you will talk | you will talk | you will be talking | you will be talking | you will have talked | you will have talked | you will have been talking | you will have been talking | ||||
he will talk | they will talk | he will be talking | they will be talking | he will have talked | they will have talked | he will have been talking | they will have been talking | ||||
conditional | I would talk | we would talk | I would be talking | we would be talking | I would have talked | we would have talked | I would have been talking | we would have been talking | |||
you would talk | you would talk | you would be talking | you would be talking | you would have talked | you would have talked | you would have been talking | you would have been talking | ||||
he would talk | they would talk | he would be talking | they would be talking | he would have talked | they would have talked | he would have been talking | they would have been talking | ||||
imperative | talk |
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:talk
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- bad-talk
- betalk
- double-talk
- fast-talk
- look who's talking
- now you're talking
- sleep-talk
- sweet-talk
- talk a blue streak
- talk about
- talk a good game
- talk a mile a minute
- talk around
- talkative
- talk back
- talk cock
- talk dirty
- talk down
- talker
- talk in circles
- talk into
- talk like an apothecary
- talk of
- talk of the devil
- talk one's way out of
- talk out of turn
- talk over
- talk past
- talk sense
- talk shit/talk shite
- talk shop
- talk smack
- talk someone's ear off
- talk someone under the table
- talk the talk
- talk through one's hat
- talk to
- talk to the hand
- talk trash
- talk turkey
- talk up
- talky
- trash-talk
- you can talk
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle English talk, talke (“conversation; discourse”), from the verb (see above).
Noun
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- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- We need to have a talk about your homework.
- A lecture.
- There is a talk on Shakespeare tonight.
- (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
- There's been talk lately about the two of them.
- (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- She is the talk of the day.
- The musical is the talk of the town.
- (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child about a reality of life; in particular:
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- Have you had the talk with Jay yet?
- (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.
- 2012, Crystal McCrary, Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World →ISBN:
- Later, I made sure to have the talk with my son about being a black boy, […]
- 2016, Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge →ISBN:
- The Talk
All the black parents I have ever spoken to have had “the talk” with their sons and daughters. “The talk” is a conversation about how to behave and not to behave with police.
- The Talk
- 2016, Stuart Scott, Larry Platt, Every Day I Fight →ISBN, page 36:
- Now, I was a black man in the South, and my folks had had “the talk” with me. No, not the one about the birds and bees. This one is about the black man and the police.
- 2012, Crystal McCrary, Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World →ISBN:
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- The party leader's speech was all talk.
- (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- The leaders of the G8 nations are currently in talks over nuclear weapons.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:talk
- (meeting): conference, debate, discussion, meeting
Derived terms
- all talk
- baby talk
- betalk
- big talk
- boy talk
- chalk talk/chalk and talk
- coffee talk
- cross talk/crosstalk
- dirty talk
- girl talk
- happy talk
- idle talk
- man talk
- peace talk
- pep talk
- pillow talk
- self-talk
- shop talk
- side talk
- sleep talk
- small talk
- stack talk
- table talk
- talkback
- talk battery
- talk bomb
- talkie
- talk is cheap
- talk of the town
- talk page
- talk radio
- talk show
- talksome
- talk the talk
- uptalk, uptalking (noun)
- walk and talk
- walkie-talkie
- walk the talk
Translations
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Related terms
Danish
Etymology
Via Script error: The function "cognate" does not exist. or Script error: The function "cognate" does not exist., from Persian طلق (talq).
Pronunciation
Noun
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- talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)
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Dutch
Pronunciation
[[Category:Templet:nl terms with audio links|talk]]Audio (file)
Etymology 1
Noun
- talc (soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch talch, from Old Dutch *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz. More at Script error: The function "cognate" does not exist..
Noun
- Alternative form of talg (“tallow”)
Descendants
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Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
From Medieval Latin talcum.
Pronunciation
Noun
talk m inan
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- talk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- talk in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Noun
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- talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)
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