direct speech

English

direct speech (uncountable)

(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?"

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)

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