friends

See also: Friends and friend

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹɛn(d)z/

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Noun

friends

1. plural of friend
2. Participants in a two-way friendship relationship.

   I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never really made friends. She was never a friend to me.

   Jane and I made friends right away.

   We became friends in the war and remain friends to this day.

   We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.

Usage notes

• We usually make a friend, or make friends with someone. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Translations

participants in a two-way friendship

• Arabic: أَصْدِقَاء (ʔaṣdiqāʔ)
• Belarusian: сябры (sjabry)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 朋友 (zh), 朋友 (zh) (péngyǒumen)

  Min Nan: 朋友 (zh-min-nan) (pêng-iú)

• Dutch: vrienden (nl)
• Esperanto: amikoj (eo), amikinoj f
• Finnish: ystävät (fi)
• French: amis (fr)
• German: Freunde (de), Freundinnen (de) f
• Greek: φίλοι (el) (fíloi)
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• Hebrew: חברים (khaverím)
• Igbo: ọyi
• Italian: amici (it), amice f
• Japanese: 友人 (ja) (yūjin)
• Korean: 친구 (ko) (chin-gu)
• Polish: przyjaciele
• Portuguese: amigos (pt), amigas (pt) f
• Russian: друзья́ (ru) (druzʹjá)
• Spanish: amigos (es), amigas (es) f
• Swedish: vänner (sv) c pl

Verb

friends

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of friend

Anagrams

• finders, redfins, refinds

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Spanish

Noun

friends m pl

1. plural of friend