quotation marks - an versital form of punctuation
DESCRIPTION
Grades 4-8TRANSCRIPT
Μόλις έμαθες να διαβάζεις Ελληνικά)~
Look out for that wolf!
“Look out for that wolf!”
Symbol
Description Languages Usage
„ " Quotation marks
Czech, German Commonly used in both.
„ " Quotation marks, low-high pair
Danish, Hungarian, Polish, Russian
Used in Russian to mark a quotation within a quotation Standard in Hungarian and Polish..
“ ” Smart quotation marks
Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish
Commonly used in all.
" " Quotation marks
Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Most commonly used quotation marks in Danish, Finnish, and Swedish. Used occasionally in Norwegian..
‘ ’ Single smart quotation marks
Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish
Used in English, Spanish, and Italian to mark a quotation within a quotation. Standard in Dutch
' ' Single quotation marks
Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Swedish
Used in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish to mark a quotation within a quotation. Used in Hungarian in philological texts.
" " Straight quotation marks
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Occasionally used in Swedish instead of standard single smart quotation marks. Occasionally used in Finnish instead of quotation marks.
' ' Single straight quotation marks
Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Used to mark a quotation within a quotation.
� � Chevron quotation marks
French, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish
Used in Italian as an alternative to smart quotation marks.
� � Chevron quotation marks
Danish, German, Hungarian Used in Hungarian to mark a quotation within a quotation. Occasionally used in Danish
� � Chevron quotation marks
Finnish, Swedish Occasionally used in both languages.
Left and right quotation marks
Chinese Standard.
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Ideographic quotation marks
Chinese, Japanese Standard.
; Question mark Greek Standard.
Arabic question mark
Arabic Standard.
� ? Question marks
Spanish Standard. Used as a pair.
� ! Exclamation marks
Spanish Standard. Used as a pair.
. Semicolon Greek Standard.
Arabic semicolon
Arabic Standard.
– En dash Most European languages Some languages, such as Czech, Danish, Dutch, and Swedish, use the en dash instead of the em dash. Spanish uses the en dash for hyphenated words and compound terms.
— Em dash All European languages except Danish and Swedish
The en dash and the em dash are not typically used together in a single document. In Spanish, the em dash is some times used for incidental clauses or text in dialog boxes.
Ideographic comma
Chinese, Japanese Standard in both.
Arabic comma Arabic Standard.
Ideographic period
Chinese, Japanese Standard in both.
Can you figure out how these quotation marks are misused?