direct speech

English

Noun

direct speech (uncountable)

1. (grammar, narratology) the writing of speech, using the exact words of the speaker, usually between quotation marks

Examples
"I love you", she said. He looked down at the ground and sighed, "oh well, I guess she's never coming back". "Why are you here", started Mrs Jones, "and what exactly do you want?"

Antonyms

• indirect speech

Translations

the writing of speech

• Arabic: كَلَام مُبَاشِر m (kalām mubāšir), مُقْتَبَس m (muqtabas)
• Bashkir: тура телмәр (tura telmər)
• Belarusian: прама́я гаво́рка f (pramája havórka), прама́я мо́ва f (pramája móva)
• Bulgarian: пря́ка реч f (prjáka reč)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直接引語／直接引语 (zhíjiē yǐnyǔ)

• Czech: přímá řeč f
• Danish: direkte tale c
• Dutch: directe rede (nl) f
• Finnish: suora lainaus
• French: discours direct (fr) m
• German: direkte Rede (de) f, wörtlich angeführte Rede f
• Hungarian: egyenes beszéd, idézés (hu), idézet (hu), idézett beszéd
• Japanese: 直接話法 (ja) (ちょくせつわほう, chokusetsu wahō)
• Korean: 직접화법(直接話法) (ko) (jikjeophwabeop)
• Malayalam: അഭികഥനം (abhikathanaṁ)
• Maori: kī horipū
• Polish: mowa niezależna (pl) f, mowa niepośrednia f
• Portuguese: discurso direto m
• Romanian: vorbire directă (ro) f
• Russian: пряма́я речь (ru) f (prjamája rečʹ)
• Slovak: priama reč f
• Slovene: premi govor m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: direkt anföring c
• Ukrainian: пряма́ мо́ва f (prjamá móva)