English
Etymology
From screen + writer.
Pronunciation
Noun
screenwriter (plural screenwriters)
- One who writes for the screen, who writes drama for film or television; especially a professional who knows the conventions appropriate to such work.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
one who writes for the screen
- Arabic: كَاتِب اَلسِّينَارْيُو m (kātib as-sināryū)
- Armenian: սցենարիստ (hy) (scʻenarist)
- Basque: gidoilari
- Bulgarian: сценарист m (scenarist)
- Catalan: guionista (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 編劇 / 编剧 (zh) (biānjù)
- Czech: scénárista (cs) m, scenárista (cs) m
- Danish: manuskriptforfatter (da), manusforfatter c, filmforfatter c
- Dutch: scenarioschrijver (nl) m, scenarioschrijfster f, scenarist (nl) m
- Esperanto: scenaristo
- Estonian: stsenarist
- Finnish: käsikirjoittaja (fi), elokuvakäsikirjoittaja
- French: scénariste (fr) m or f
- German: Drehbuchautor (de) m, Drehbuchautorin (de) f, Drehbuchschreiber m, Drehbuchschreiberin f, Filmautor m, Filmautorin f, Filmszenarist m, Filmszenaristin f, Szenarist m, Szenaristin f
- Greek: σεναριογράφος (el) m or f (senariográfos)
- Hungarian: forgatókönyvíró (hu)
- Italian: sceneggiatore (it) m, sceneggiatrice f
- Japanese: 脚本家 (ja) (きゃくほんか, kyakuhonka)
- Kazakh: сценарийші (ssenariişı)
- Korean: 각본가(脚本家) (gakbon'ga)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: manusforfatter m, filmforfatter m
- Nynorsk: manusforfattar m, filmforfattar m
- Polish: scenarzysta (pl) m, scenarzystka (pl) f
- Portuguese: roteirista (pt) m or f
- Romanian: scenarist (ro) m, scenaristă (ro) f
- Russian: сценари́ст (ru) m (scenaríst), сценари́стка (ru) f (scenarístka), кинодрамату́рг (ru) m (kinodramatúrg)
- Serbo-Croatian: scenarist (sh) m
- Spanish: guionista (es) m or f
- Swedish: manusförfattare c, filmförfattare c
- Tagalog: manunulatsay
- Uzbek: ssenarist (uz)
- Vietnamese: nhà biên kịch (家編劇), biên kịch viên (編劇員), người viết kịch bản (𠊛筆劇本)
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