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babble verb

  /ˈbæb.(ə)l/
  • (intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
 lörpötellä, höpöttää, laverrella, pulista
  • (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
 solista
  • (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
 höpistä, höpöttää
  • (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
 höpöttää
  • (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
 jokeltaa

babble noun

  /ˈbæb.(ə)l/
  • Idle talk; senseless prattle
 höpötys, lörpöttely, pulina
  • Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
 pulina
  • A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.
 solina

babbling noun

  • (countable, uncountable) sounds produced by infant during the babbling period
 jokellus, jokeltelu
  • (uncountable) a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words
 jokeltelu
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