free

See also: -free

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English free, fre, freo, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English frēo (“free”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“free”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to be fond of”). Cognate with West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Danish fri (“free”).

The verb comes from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English freen, freoȝen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English frēon, frēoġan (“to free; make free”).

Pronunciation

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A sign advertising free beer (obtainable without payment).

A "buy one get one free" sign at a flower stand (obtainable without additional payment).

This food product is labelled "fat free", meaning it contains no fat.

Adjective

free (comparative freer, superlative freest)

1. (social) Unconstrained.

   He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted.

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   1. Not imprisoned or enslaved.

      a free man

   2. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; frank; communicative.
      • Milward

        He was free only with a few.

   3. Generous; liberal.

      He's very free with his money.

   4. (obsolete) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
      • John Dryden (1631-1700)

        My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

   5. Without obligations.

      free time

   6. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.

      a free school

      • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

        Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free / For me as for you?

   7. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.

      This is a free country.

   8. (software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.

      OpenOffice is free software.

   9. (software) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.
2. Obtainable without any payment.

   The government provides free health care.

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   1. (by extension, chiefly advertising slang) Obtainable without additional payment, as a bonus given when paying for something else.

      Buy a TV to get a free DVD player!

3. (abstract) Unconstrained.
   1. (mathematics) Unconstrained by relators.

      the free group on three generators

   2. (mathematics, logic) Unconstrained by quantifiers.

      $z$ is the free variable in $\forall x\exists y:xy=z$.

   3. (programming) Of identifiers, not bound.
   4. (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
4. (physical) Unconstrained.
   1. Unobstructed, without blockages.

      the drain was free

   2. Unattached or uncombined.

      a free radical

   3. Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.

      You can sit on this chair; it's free.

   4. (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose.

      In this group of mushrooms, the gills are free.

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        Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute […]

5. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.

   We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat.  I would like to live free from care in the mountains.

   • Bishop Burnet (1635?-1715)

     princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties
6. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.

   a free horse

7. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
   • John Dryden (1631-1700)

     He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, / Free of his farm.

8. (UK, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.

   free service;  free socage

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9. (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.

   a free fishery;  a free warren

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Synonyms

• (obtainable without payment): free of charge, gratis
• (unconstrained): unconstrained, unfettered, unhindered
• (unobstructed): clear, unobstructed
• (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement): libre
• (without): without
• (programming: not bound): unbound

Antonyms

• (not imprisoned or enslaved): bound, enslaved, imprisoned
• (unconstrained): constrained, restricted
• (logic: unconstrained by quantifiers): bound
• (unobstructed): blocked, obstructed
• (of identifiers, not bound): bound
• (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement): proprietary software

Derived terms

Terms derived from free

• -free
• free Abelian group, free abelian group
• free algebra
• free and clear
• free and easy
• free as a bird
• freeball
• freebooter
• free fall
• free group
• freelance
• freeloader

• free lunch
• freely
• free market
• free marketeer
• Freemason
• free module
• free object
• free of charge
• free rein
• free ride
• free rider
• free semigroup

• free speech
• free spirit
• free-spoken
• free-thinker
• free time
• free variable
• free vote
• freeware
• freeway
• freewheel
• free will
• unfree

Related terms

• freedom
• friend

Translations

not imprisoned

• Afrikaans: vrye
• Albanian: lirë (i/e)
• Amharic: ነፃ (näṣ́a)
• Arabic: حُرّ (ar) (ḥurr)

  Egyptian Arabic: حر (ḥurr)

• Armenian: ազատ (azat)
• Asturian: llibre
• Azeri: azad
• Bashkir: ирекле (irekle)
• Bambara: hɔrɔn
• Belarusian: свабо́дны (svabódny), во́льны (vólʹny)
• Bengali: মুক্ত (mukto)
• Bulgarian: свобо̀ден (bg) (svobòden)
• Catalan: lliure (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由的 (zh) (zìyóu de)

• Czech: svobodný (cs), volný (cs)
• Danish: fri (da)
• Dutch: vrij (nl), los (nl)
• Esperanto: libera (eo)
• Estonian: vaba (et), prii
• Finnish: vapaa (fi)
• French: libre (fr)
• Friulian: libar
• German: frei (de), ungebunden
• Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (freis)
• Greek: ελεύθερος (el) (eléftheros)

  Ancient: ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros)

• Haitian Creole: lib
• Hebrew: חופשי \ חָפְשִׁי (khofshí)
• Hindi: मुक्त (mukt), आज़ाद (āzād)
• Hungarian: szabad (hu)
• Icelandic: frjáls (is)
• Ido: libera (io)
• Indonesian: bebas (id)
• Interlingua: libere
• Irish: saor

  Old Irish: sóer

• Istriot: leîbaro
• Italian: libero (it)
• Japanese: 自由 (ja) (じゆう, jiyū)
• Khmer: សេរី (km) (seerəy)
• Korean: 자유 (ko)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: azad (ku), serbest (ku), rizgar (ku)

  Sorani: ,

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• Latin: līber (la)
• Latvian: brīvs
• Leonese: ḷḷibru
• Limburgish: vrie (li)
• Lithuanian: laisvas (lt)
• Low German: frii, fri

  German Low German: free

• Luxembourgish: fräi
• Macedonian: слободен (sloboden)
• Malay: bebas
• Malayalam: സ്വതന്ത്രം (svatantraṁ)
• Norman: libre
• Norwegian: fri (no)
• Novial:
• Occitan: liure (oc)
• Old English: frēo, frēolic
• Persian: آزاد (fa) (âzâd), رها (fa) (rahâ)
• Polish: wolny (pl)
• Portuguese: livre (pt)
• Quechua: qispi (qu)
• Romanian: liber (ro), slobod (ro)
• Russian: свобо́дный (ru) (svobódnyj), во́льный (ru) (vólʹnyj)
• Sanskrit: मुक्त (mukta), स्वतन्त्र (svatantra)
• Scottish Gaelic: saor
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слободан

  Roman: slobodan

• Sindhi: آزاد (sd) (āzād)
• Slovak: slobodný, voľný
• Slovene: svoboden (sl)
• Spanish: libre (es)
• Swahili: huru
• Swedish: fri (sv)
• Telugu: విడుదల (te) (viḍudala)
• Turkish: özgür (tr)
• Ukrainian: ві́льний (uk) (vílʹnyj)
• Urdu: آزاد (ur) (āzād), سوتنتر (svatantra)
• Uyghur: ئەركىن (erkin), ھۆر (hör)
• Walloon: libe (wa)
• Welsh: rhydd (cy)
• West Frisian: frijlitten, frij
• Zazaki: azad, xoser

obtainable without payment — see free of charge

unconstrained

• Albanian: pafre
• Amharic: ነፃ (näṣ́a)
• Arabic: حُرّ (ar) (ḥurr)
• Armenian: առանց (aṙancʻ)
• Asturian: llibre
• Azeri: sərbəst
• Bambara: hɔrɔn
• Bashkir: иркен (irken)
• Catalan: lliure (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由的 (zh) (zìyóu de)

• Czech: volný (cs)
• Danish: fri (da)
• Dutch: vrij (nl), los (nl), loslopend
• Esperanto: libera (eo)
• Estonian: vaba (et), prii
• Finnish: vapaa (fi), rajoittamaton
• French: libre (fr)
• German: frei (de), ungebunden
• Greek: ελεύθερος (el) (eléftheros), ανεμπόδιστος (el) (anempódistos)
• Hebrew: פָּנוּי (panúy)
• Ido: libera (io)
• Interlingua: libere, franc
• Irish: saor, scaoilte, éasca

  Old Irish: sóer

• Italian: libero (it) m, brado m
• Japanese: 自由 (ja) (じゆう, jiyū)
• Khmer: ស្រស់ស្រាយ (km) (srɑh sraay)
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• Korean: 자유적 (jayujeok, 自由的)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: berdayî (ku)

  Sorani:

• Latin: līber (la)
• Latvian: brīvs
• Limburgish: vrie (li)
• Low German:

  German Low German: free

• Macedonian: слободен (sloboden)
• Norman: libre
• Norwegian: fri (no), løs
• Novial:
• Old English: frēo
• Persian: آزاد (fa) (âzâd)
• Polish: wolny (pl), swobodny (pl)
• Portuguese: livre (pt)
• Romanian: liber (ro), neîmpiedicat
• Russian: свобо́дный (ru) (svobódnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: saor
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: povoljno, voljno, neograničen, slobodan

• Sindhi: چٽل
• Spanish: libre (es)
• Swedish: fri (sv)
• Turkish: serbest (tr)
• Vietnamese: tự do (vi)
• Welsh: rhydd (cy)
• Zazaki: serbest

mathematics: unconstrained

• Czech: volný (cs)
• Finnish: vapaa (fi)
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• Norwegian: fri (no)
• Portuguese: livre (pt)
• Romanian: liber (ro), nelegat

unobstructed

• Albanian: lirë
• Azeri: maneə törədilməmiş
• Catalan: lliure (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通暢的／通畅的, 通畅的 (zh) (tōngchàng de), 順暢的／顺畅的, 順畅的 (shùnchàng de)

• Czech: volný (cs) m
• Dutch: vrij (nl), open (nl)
• Esperanto: libera (eo)
• Estonian: piiramatu, takistamatu
• Finnish: auki (fi) (adverb), aukinainen, avoin (fi), esteetön, selvä (fi)
• French: libre (fr)
• German: frei (de)
• Greek: ελεύθερος (el) m (eléftheros), ανεμπόδιστος (el) m (anempódistos)
• Hebrew: פָּנוּי (panúy)
• Ido: libera (io)
• Interlingua: libere, franc
• Italian: libero (it) m
• Japanese: そのままの (sono mama no)
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• Norman: libre
• Korean: 막힘없는
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: vekirî (ku), vebûyî (ku)

• Limburgish: vrie (li)
• Low German:

  German Low German: free

• Macedonian: непречен (neprečen)
• Norwegian: åpen (no), fri (no)
• Novial:
• Polish: wolny (pl), swobodny (pl)
• Portuguese: livre (pt)
• Romanian: liber (ro), neîmpiedicat
• Russian: беспрепя́тственный (ru) (besprepjátstvennyj), свобо́дный (ru) (svobódnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: saor
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: slobodan, otvoren

• Sindhi: خلاصو
• Slovene: prost (sl)
• Spanish: libre (es), sin obstáculos (es), despejado (es)
• Telugu: అడ్డగించని (aḍḍagiñcani)
• Turkish: engellenmemiş (tr)

not in use

• Arabic: شَاغِر (šāḡir)
• Azeri: boş (az)
• Bashkir: буш (buş)
• Bulgarian: незает (bg) (nezaet), неизползван (bg) (neizpolzvan)
• Burmese: အား (my) (a:)
• Catalan: desocupat
• Czech: volný (cs)
• Finnish: vapaa (fi)
• French: libre (fr), disponible (fr)
• German: frei (de), unbesetzt
• Greek: ελεύθερος (el) m (eléftheros)
• Norman: libre
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• Latvian: brīvs
• Macedonian: слободен (sloboden)
• Norwegian: ledig
• Persian: آزاد (fa) (âzâd), بی کار (fa) (bikâr)
• Portuguese: vago (pt), livre (pt), desocupado (pt)
• Romanian: liber (ro), neocupat (ro)
• Russian: свобо́дный (ru) (svobódnyj), неза́нятый (ru) (nezánjatyj)
• Spanish: libre (es), desocupado
• Swedish: ledig (sv)
• Telugu: ఉపయోగించని (upayōgiñcani)
• Turkish: boş (tr)
• Zazaki: veng, bêkar, azad

without obligations

• Albanian: pazënë
• Azeri: çətininsiz
• Bambara: hɔrɔn
• Bashkir: буш (buş), ирекле (irekle)
• Bulgarian: свободен (bg) (svoboden)
• Burmese: အား (my) (a:)
• Catalan: lliure (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由的 (zh) (zìyóu de)

• Czech: volný (cs)
• Danish: fri (da)
• Dutch: vrij (nl), ongedwongen
• Esperanto: libera (eo)
• Estonian: vaba (et)
• Finnish: vapaa (fi)
• French: libre (fr)
• German: frei (de), ungebunden
• Greek: ελεύθερος (el) m (eléftheros)
• Hebrew: פָּנוּי (panúy), חופשי \ חָפְשִׁי (khofshí)
• Hungarian: szabad (hu)
• Ido: libera (io)
• Interlingua: libere
• Irish: saor

  Old Irish: sóer

• Italian: libero (it)
• Japanese:
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• Norman: libre m or f
• Korean: 자의 (ko) (ja-ui, 自意)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: azad (ku), serbest (ku)

• Latvian: brīvs
• Limburgish: vrie (li)
• Macedonian: слободен (sloboden)
• Ngazidja Comorian: na nafasi
• Norwegian: fri (no), ledig
• Novial:
• Old English: frēo
• Polish: wolny (pl)
• Portuguese: livre (pt)
• Romanian: liber (ro) m
• Russian: свобо́дный (ru) (svobódnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: saor
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: bezobavezno, slobodan

• Sindhi: فارِغ, واندو (sd)
• Slovene: prost (sl)
• Spanish: libre (es), exento (es)
• Swedish: fri (sv)
• Telugu: నిబంధన లేని (nibandhana lēni)
• Turkish: serbest (tr), zorunsuz (tr)
• Vietnamese: rỗi (vi)

software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement

• Albanian: lejuar
• Azeri: azad
• Bambara: hɔrɔn
• Bashkir: түләүһеҙ (tüləwheź)
• Bulgarian: безплатен (bg) (bezplaten)
• Catalan: lliure (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由的 (zh) (zìyóu de)

• Czech: svobodný (cs)
• Danish: fri (da)
• Dutch: vrij (nl), vrije (nl)
• Esperanto: libera (eo)
• Estonian: vaba (et)
• Finnish: avoin (fi), vapaa (fi)
• French: libre (fr)
• German: frei (de)
• Greek: ελεύθερος (el) (eléftheros)
• Hebrew: חופשי \ חָפְשִׁי (khofshí)
• Ido: libera (io)
• Interlingua: libere
• Irish: saor
• Italian: libero (it), free (it), libre (it) (software)
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• Japanese: フリー (ja) (furī)
• Korean: 자유 (ko)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: azad (ku), vekirî (ku), serbest (ku)

• Limburgish: vrie (li)
• Lithuanian: nemokama (lt)
• Macedonian: слободен (sloboden)
• Norwegian: fri (no)
• Novial:
• Polish: wolny (pl)
• Portuguese: livre (pt)
• Romanian: gratuit (ro), liber (ro)
• Russian: беспла́тный (ru) (besplátnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: slobodan

• Sindhi: کليل
• Spanish: libre (es)
• Swedish: fri (sv)
• Telugu: ఉచిత దిగుమతి (ucita digumati)
• Turkish: özgür (tr)
• Zazaki: xoser

without

• Bashkir: -һыҙ (-hıź) / -һеҙ (-heź), -һоҙ (-hoź) / -һөҙ (-höź)
• Burmese: လွတ်လပ် (my) (lwatlap)
• Czech: prostý (cs)
• Dutch: zonder (nl), -vrij
• Finnish: -ton (fi), ilman (fi) (jotakin), -vapaa (fi)
• French: sans (fr)
• German: frei (de)
• Hebrew: בְּלְי (he)
• Irish: gan (ga)
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• Low German:

  German Low German: free

• Macedonian: без- (bez-), бес- (bes-)
• Malay: tanpa
• Norwegian: fri (no), uten (no)
• Persian: بدون (fa)
• Portuguese: semideus (pt)
• Telugu: లేకుండా (te) (lēkuṇḍā)
• Zazaki: berdos

programming: not bound

• Czech: volný (cs)
• Finnish: riippumaton (fi)
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• Portuguese: livre (pt)
• Telugu: పరిమితి లేని (parimiti lēni)

mycology: not attached to the stipe

• Azeri: zəif
• Finnish: irtonainen
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• Turkish: gevşek (tr)
• Zazaki: sıst

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: (i/e) ^{(please verify)} lirë, ^{(please verify)} pa
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} oslobođen, ^{(please verify)} pušten
• German: ^{(please verify)} entlassen (de), ^{(please verify)} befreit (de), ^{(please verify)} frei von
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} bebas (id), (1) ^{(please verify)} merdeka (id), ^{(please verify)} gratis (id), (2) ^{(please verify)} cuma-cuma, ^{(please verify)} bebas (id), ^{(please verify)} merdeka (id), (5) ^{(please verify)} gratis (id), ^{(please verify)} cuma-cuma, ^{(please verify)} tanpa (id), ^{(please verify)} kosong (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} libere
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} senza (it)
• Lithuanian: (3) ^{(please verify)} be (lt), (4) ^{(please verify)} neribotas
• Low German: ^{(please verify)} leddig, ^{(please verify)} ledig
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• Occitan: (1,3) ^{(please verify)} liure (oc), (2) ^{(please verify)} dobèrt, (5) ^{(please verify)} gratis, (5) ^{(please verify)} gratuït
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} slobodan (1), ^{(please verify)} besplatan (5)

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} slobodný, ^{(please verify)} bezplatný, (1) ^{(please verify)} slobodný, (1, 2, 4) ^{(please verify)} voľný, (5) ^{(please verify)} bezplatný
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} fri (sv), ^{(please verify)} lös (sv), ^{(please verify)} släppt (sv)
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} இலவசம் (ta) (ilavacam)
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} libik (vo), ^{(please verify)} livik (vo)
• West Frisian: ^{(please verify)} frijlitten, ^{(please verify)} befrijt

Adverb

free (comparative more free, superlative most free)

1. Without needing to pay.

   I got this bike free.

2. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
   • Shakespeare

     I as free forgive you / As I would be forgiven.

Synonyms

• (informal, without needing to pay): for free, for nothing

Translations

without needing to pay

• Albanian: falas
• Bulgarian: безплатно (bg) (bezplatno)
• Czech: zadarmo
• Finnish: ilmaiseksi (fi)
• French: gratuitement (fr), (informal) gratis (fr), (informal) gratos (fr)
• Hindi: मुफ़्त (muft)
• Irish: saor
• Italian: gratuitamente (it)
• Latvian: bezmaksas
• Macedonian: бесплатно (bésplatno)
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• Maori: utukore (mi)
• Navajo: tʼáá jííkʼe, tʼáadoo bą́ą́h ílíní da
• Norwegian: gratis (no)
• Polish: za darmo, bezpłatnie (pl)
• Portuguese: grátis (pt), de graça, gratuitamente (pt)
• Russian: беспла́тно (ru) (besplátno), да́ром (ru) (dárom)
• Scottish Gaelic: an asgaidh
• Spanish: gratis (es)
• Swedish: gratis (sv)
• Telugu: చెల్లించనవసరం లేని (celliñcanavasaraṁ lēni)
• Yiddish: בחינם (bkhinem)
• Zazaki: berdos

A painting depicting mythical Greek hero Perseus freeing Andromeda, who was imprisoned by a sea monster.

Verb

1. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses.

Hyponyms

• emancipate
• liberate
• manumit
• release
• unchain
• unfetter

Translations

make free

• Afrikaans: bevry, loslaat, laat gaan
• Albanian: liroj
• Arabic: حَرَّرَ (ḥarrara)
• Bulgarian: освобождавам (bg) (osvoboždavam)
• Catalan: alliberar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解放 (zh) (jiěfàng)

• Czech: osvobodit (cs) pf
• Danish: befri, fritage, løslade
• Dutch: bevrijden (nl), loslaten (nl), laten gaan
• Esperanto: liberi, liberigi
• Estonian: vabastama (et), vabaks laskma
• Finnish: vapauttaa (fi), päästää (fi) vapaaksi
• French: libérer (fr), dégager (fr), affranchir (fr)
• German: befreien (de), freisetzen (de) (free someone from prison)
• Greek: ελευθερώνω (el) (eleftheróno)
• Hebrew: שיחרר \ שִׁחְרֵר (he) (shikhrér)
• Ido: libereskar (io)
• Interlingua: liberar
• Irish: saoraigh
• Italian: liberare (it)
• Japanese: 解放する (ja) (かいほうする, kaihō-suru)
• Norman: libéther
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 해방하다 (ko) (haebanghada) (解放 (ko) + 하다 (ko) (hada))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: liberare
• Latvian: atbrīvot, atsvabināt
• Lithuanian: išlaisvinti
• Macedonian: ослободува (oslobóduva)
• Norwegian: frigjøre, frigi, befri, løslate
• Occitan: desliurar (oc)
• Old English: frēoġan
• Persian: آزاد ساختن (âzâd sâxtan), آزاد کردن (fa) (âzâd kardan)
• Polish: uwalniać (pl) impf, uwolnić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: libertar (pt), livrar (pt), soltar (pt)
• Romanian: elibera (ro)
• Russian: освобожда́ть (ru) impf (osvoboždátʹ), освободи́ть (ru) pf (osvobodítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: osloboditi pf
• Slovak: oslobodiť (sk) pf
• Slovene: osvoboditi pf
• Spanish: librar (es)
• Swedish: frigöra, befria (sv), frita (sv)(ga)
• Telugu: విడుదల చేయు (viḍudala cēyu)
• Turkish: serbest bırakmak (tr)
• Vietnamese: giải phóng (vi) (解放)
• Yiddish: באַפֿרײַען (befrayen)

Noun

free (plural frees)

1. (deprecated template usage) (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
   • 2006, [1]:

     Whether deserved or not, the free gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren.

2. free transfer
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3. (deprecated template usage) (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.

Translations

abbreviation of free kick

• Finnish: vapari (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Freistoss (de)

hurling

• Irish: (hurling) poc saor m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ghotuo: koola

Usage notes

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Anagrams

• fere
• reef

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Low German

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Low German (deprecated template usage) vrīe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Saxon frī, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *frijaz, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *prey (“new”). Compare Dutch (deprecated template usage) vrij, West Frisian (deprecated template usage) frij, English (deprecated template usage) free, German (deprecated template usage) frei.

Adjective

free (comparative fre'er, superlative freest)

1. free

Declension

Positive forms of free

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		he is free	se is free	dat is free	se sünd free
partitive		een Fre'es	een Fre'es	wat Fre'es	allens Fre'e
strong declension (without article)	nominative	fre'e	fre'e	free	fre'e
	oblique	fre'en	fre'e	free	fre'e
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	de fre'e	de fre'e	dat fre'e	de fre'en
	oblique	den fre'en	de fre'e	dat fre'e	de fre'en
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	en fre'e/fre'en	en fre'e	en free/fre'et	(keen) fre'en
	oblique	en fre'en	en fre'e	en free/fre'et	(keen) fre'en

Comparative forms of free

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		he is fre'er	se is fre'er	dat is fre'er	se sünd fre'er
partitive		een fre'ers	een fre'ers	wat fre'ers	allens fre'er
strong declension (without article)	nominative	fre'ere	fre'ere	fre'er	fre'ere
	oblique	fre'ern	fre'ere	fre'er	fre'ere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	de fre'ere	de fre'ere	dat fre'ere	de fre'ern
	oblique	den fre'ern	de fre'ere	dat fre'ere	de fre'ern
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	en fre'ere/fre'eren	en fre'ere	en fre'er	(keen) fre'ern
	oblique	en fre'ern	en fre'ere	en fre'er	(keen) fre'ern

Superlative forms of free

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		he is de Freeste	se is de Freeste	dat is dat Freeste	se sünd de Freesten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	freeste	freeste	freest	freeste
	oblique	freesten	freeste	freest	freeste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	de freeste	de freeste	dat freeste	de freesten
	oblique	den freesten	de freeste	dat freeste	de freesten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	en freeste/freesten	en freeste	en freest	(keen) freesten
	oblique	en freesten	en freeste	en freest	(keen) freesten

Note: This declension is one of many; neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.

Derived terms

• Freeheit