Noun
reported speech (uncountable)
- (grammar) a form of speech used to express what another has said; often involves a change in tense
- If we were to change "Fred says "I will do the housework"." into reported speech it would become "Fred said that he would do the housework."
Synonyms
Translations
a form of speech used to express what another has said
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 間接引語 (cmn), 间接引语 (cmn) (jiànjiē yǐnyǔ)
- Finnish: epäsuora lainaus (fi)
- French: discours indirect (fr) m
- German: indirekte Rede (de) f
- Greek: πλάγιος λόγος (plágios lógos) m
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- Icelandic: óbein ræða (is) f
- Italian: discorso indiretto (it)
- Japanese: 間接話法 (ja) (kansetsu wahō)
- Polish: mowa zależna (pl) f
- Russian: косвенная речь (ru) (kósvennaja reč') f
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