reported speech

English

Noun

reported speech (uncountable)

1. (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 an reported speech it would become "Fred said that he would do the housework."

Synonyms

• indirect speech

Translations

a form of speech used to express what another has said

Chinese: Mandarin: 間接引語 (zh), 间接引语 (zh) (jiànjiē yǐnyǔ) Finnish: epäsuora lainaus (fi) French: discours indirect (fr) m. German: indirekte Rede (de) f.

Greek: πλάγιος λόγος (el) (plágios lógos) m. 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.