direct speech

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33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: ligjëratë e drejtë — the writing of speech
• Arabic: كَلَام مُبَاشِر (kalām mubāšir) — the writing of speech
• Arabic: مُقْتَبَس (muqtabas) — the writing of speech
• Bashkir: тура телмәр (tura telmər) — the writing of speech
• Belarusian: прама́я гаво́рка (pramája havórka) — the writing of speech
• Belarusian: прама́я мо́ва (pramája móva) — the writing of speech
• Bulgarian: пря́ка реч (prjáka reč) — the writing of speech
• Chinese Mandarin: 直接引語 /直接引语 (zhíjiē yǐnyǔ) — the writing of speech
• Czech: přímá řeč — the writing of speech
• Danish: direkte tale — the writing of speech
• Dutch: directe rede — the writing of speech
• Finnish: suora lainaus — the writing of speech
• French: discours direct — the writing of speech
• German: direkte Rede — the writing of speech
• Hungarian: egyenes beszéd — the writing of speech
• Hungarian: idézés — the writing of speech
• Hungarian: idézet — the writing of speech
• Hungarian: idézett beszéd — the writing of speech
• Indonesian: wacana langsung — the writing of speech
• Japanese: 直接話法 (chokusetsu wahō) — the writing of speech
• Korean: 직접화법 (jikjeophwabeop) — the writing of speech
• Lithuanian: tiesioginė kalba — the writing of speech
• Malayalam: അഭികഥനം (abhikathanaṁ) — the writing of speech
• Māori: kī horipū — the writing of speech
• Polish: mowa niezależna — the writing of speech
• Polish: mowa niepośrednia — the writing of speech
• Portuguese: discurso direto — the writing of speech
• Romanian: vorbire directă — the writing of speech
• Russian: пряма́я речь (prjamája rečʹ) — the writing of speech
• Slovak: priama reč — the writing of speech
• Slovene: premi govor — the writing of speech
• Swedish: direkt anföring — the writing of speech
• Ukrainian: пряма́ мо́ва (prjamá móva) — the writing of speech