言い聞かす

いいきかす

to tell someone to do something, to warn, to persuade, to instruct

聞かせる

きかせる

to read to, to sing for, to inform, to tell

読み聞かせる

よみきかせる

to read aloud to another

説き聞かせる

とききかせる

to explain, to reason

申し聞かせる

もうしきかせる

to tell, to talk to

と言って聞かない

といってきかない

insisting

言い伏せる

いいふせる

to argue down

言い表せる

いいあらわせる

to be able to be expressed in words, to be sayable

見ざる聞かざる言わざる

みざるきかざるいわざる

see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil, the three wise monkeys

言い付かる

いいつかる

to be ordered

言いかける

いいかける

to start to say, to attempt to say, to be about to say, to break off (mid-sentence)

言いかねる

to find it hard to say

言いつかる

to be ordered (to do)

言うことを聞かない

いうことをきかない

not doing as one is told, disobedient, unruly

聞き合せる

ききあわせる

to make inquiries, to refer to

言い合わせる

いいあわせる

to agree in advance

言付かる

ことづかる

to be entrusted with, to be asked to

聞きかじる

ききかじる

to have a smattering knowledge of

聞ける

きける

to tell