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"text": "If we were to change \"Fred says, 'I will do the housework'\" into reported speech it would become \"Fred said that he would do the housework.\""
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"word": "epäsuora lainaus"
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
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"word": "πλάγιος λόγος"
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ganjeophwabeop",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "간접화법"
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"roman": "anukathanaṁ",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "അനുകഥനം"
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
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"word": "ко́свенная речь"
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
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"word": "непряма́ мо́ва"
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"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "sitlətelgən telmər",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "ситләтелгән телмәр"
},
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"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "uskósnaja havórka",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "уско́сная гаво́рка"
},
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"code": "be",
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"roman": "uskósnaja móva",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "уско́сная мо́ва"
},
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neprjáka reč",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "непря́ка реч"
},
{
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "間接引語"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiànjiē yǐnyǔ",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "间接引语"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
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"word": "nepřímá řeč"
},
{
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"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
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"word": "indirekte tale"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "indirecte rede"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "epäsuora lainaus"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "discours rapporté"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "indirekte Rede"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "plágios lógos",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πλάγιος λόγος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "függő beszéd"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "óbein ræða"
},
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "claoninsint"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "discorso indiretto"
},
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"alt": "かんせつわほう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kansetsu wahō",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "間接話法"
},
{
"alt": "間接話法",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ganjeophwabeop",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "간접화법"
},
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"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "anukathanaṁ",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"word": "അനുകഥനം"
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
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"word": "discurso indireto"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
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"word": "vorbire indirectă"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kósvennaja rečʹ",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "ко́свенная речь"
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
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"word": "nepriama reč"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
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"word": "estilo indirecto"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
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"word": "indirekt anföring"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "neprjamá móva",
"sense": "a form of speech used to express what another has said",
"tags": [
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"word": "непряма́ мо́ва"
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"word": "reported speech"
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