Illustration: In an apartment kitchen, a parent stands beside an open biscuit tin, one finger still extended toward a child in a scolding gesture. The child leans forward with an indignant open mouth and points straight back at biscuit crumbs caught on the parent's sweater.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

言いい返かえす

iikaesu

to talk back, to retort

Example sentences

彼女かのじょは彼かれに言いい返かえした。
She talked back to him.
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彼かれは彼女かのじょに言いい返かえそうとはしなかった。
He didn’t try to answer her back.
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彼女かのじょに言いい返かえすのは筋違すじちがいだ。
It’s wrong of you to talk back to her.
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Kanji in 言返

言say; wordOnゲン・ゴンKunいう・こと
返returnOnヘンKunかえす・かえる

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