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

   Synonym: direct discourse

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)