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語り手 (かたりて, katarite) Japanese meaning: narrator | Kotomora
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The narrator of this novel is the protagonist's best friend.
He is famous as a storyteller of old tales.
Usage patterns 〈 物語も 〉 の 語がた り 手〉のかたりて を 務つと める to serve as the narrator of a story
She served as the narrator of that film.
語かた り 手て になる to become the narrator/storyteller
My grandfather became the storyteller of the old tales.
語かた り 手て として 〈 物語ものがたり〉 〉 を 語かた る to tell a story in the role of narrator
He told the long legend as its narrator.
Related words ナレーター is a loanword typically used for voice-over narrators in films, TV, or audio guides, while 語り手 is a native Japanese term that can refer to any storyteller, including literary narrators.
語り部 evokes a traditional oral storyteller who passes down legends or history, whereas 語り手 is the neutral, general term for anyone narrating a tale.
話者 is a more technical or linguistic term for the speaker/narrative voice in a text, while 語り手 is the everyday word for the person telling a story.
Etymology Compound of 語り (kataru, 'to tell') + 手 (te, 'person'). The reading かたりて is a regular combination of the verb stem and the suffix.
