Translations of the Term “Free Software”
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This is a list of recommended unambiguous translations of the
term “free software”.
We also provide translations of “gratis software” in a separate column
to show how to make the contrast in various languages.
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any corrections or additions to those, too.
| Code | Name | Free Software | Gratis Software |
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| af | Afrikaans | 
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| ar | Arabic | 
(barmagiyat ḥorrah) |
| be | Belarusian | 
(svabodnae pragramnae
zabes’pjachen’ne) |
| bg | Bulgarian | 
(svoboden softuer) | 
(bezplaten softuer) |
| bn | Bengali | 
(swadhin software) |
| ca | Catalan | 
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| cs | Czech | 
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| cy | Welsh | 
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| da | Danish | 
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| de | German | 
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| el | Greek | 
(eleuthero logismiko) |
| eo | Esperanto | 
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| es | Spanish | 
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| et | Estonian | 
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| fa | Persian (Farsi) | 
(nrmafzar azad) |
| fi | Finnish | 
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| fr | French | 
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| ga | Irish | 
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| he | Hebrew | 
(tochna chofshit) |
| hi | Hindi | 
(mukt software) | 
(muft software) |
| hr | Croatian | 
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| hu | Hungarian | 
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| hy | Armenian | 
(azat tsragir/tsragrer) |
| ia | Interlingua | 
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| id | Indonesian | 
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| io | Ido | 
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| is | Icelandic | 
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| it | Italian | 
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| ja | Japanese | 
(jiyuu software) | 
(muryou software) |
| ko | Korean | 
(ja-yu software) |
| lt | Lithuanian | 
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|
| mk | Macedonian | 
(sloboden softver) | 
(besplaten softver) |
| ml | Malayalam | 
(svatantrasophṯṯveyar) |
| ms | Malay | 
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| nl | Dutch | 
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| no | Norwegian | 
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| pl | Polish | 
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| pt | Portuguese | 
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| ro | Romanian | 
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| ru | Russian | 
(svobodnie programmi) | 
(besplatnie programmi) |
| sc | Sardinian | 
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| si | Sinhala | 
(nidahas mṛdukāṅga) |
| sk | Slovak | 
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| sl | Slovenian | 
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| sq | Albanian | 
| 
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| sr | Serbian | 
(slobodni softver) | 
(besplatni softver) |
| sv | Swedish | 
|
| sw | Swahili | 
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| ta | Tamil | 
(kaṭṭaṟṟa meṉpoñaḷ) |
| th | Thai | 
(sofotwerseri) |
| tl | Tagalog/
Filipino | 
|
| tr | Turkish | 
|
| uk | Ukrainian | 
(vil’ne prohramne
zabezpechennja) |
| vi | Vietnamese | 
|
zh-
cn | Chinese
(Simplified) | 
(zi-you ruan-jian) | 
|
zh-
tw | Chinese (Traditional) | 
(zih-yo) | 
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| zu | Zulu | 
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