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悪魔のことを話せば悪魔が現れる。

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悪魔 こと 話せば 悪魔 現れる

English Translation

Speak of the devil and he is sure to appear.

Furigana

悪魔(あくま)のことを(はな)せば悪魔(あくま)(あらわ)れる。

Romanji

Akuma no koto o hanaseba akuma ga arawareru.

Words

悪魔 (あくま)
devil; demon; fiend; Satan; evil spirit
()
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
(こと、こん)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as
()
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
話す (はなす)
to talk; to speak; to converse; to chat; to tell; to explain; to narrate; to mention; to describe; to discuss; to speak (a language)
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
現れる (あらわれる)
to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to come out; to embody; to materialize; to materialise; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)

Kanji

Readings: アク、 オ、 わる.い、 わる-、 あ.し、 にく.い、 -にく.い、 ああ、 いずくに、 いずくんぞ、 にく.む
Meanings: bad, vice, rascal, false, evil, wrong
Reading: 
Meanings: witch, demon, evil spirit
Readings: ワ、 はな.す、 はなし
Meanings: tale, talk
Readings: ゲン、 あらわ.れる、 あらわ.す、 うつつ、 うつ.つ
Meanings: present, existing, actual