gratuit

See also: gratuït

Dutch

Alternative forms

• gratuite

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French gratuit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːˈtʋi/

• Audio:

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Adjective

gratuit (not comparable)

1. gratuitous, not obliged to

Declension

Declension of gratuit
uninflected	gratuit
inflected	gratuite
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		gratuit
indefinite	m./f. sing.	gratuite
	n. sing.	gratuit
	plural	gratuite
definite		gratuite
partitive		gratuits

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grātuītus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.tɥi/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: gra‧tuit

Adjective

gratuit (feminine gratuite, masculine plural gratuits, feminine plural gratuites)

1. free of charge

   Antonym: payant

2. gratuitous, for no reason

   méchanceté gratuite ― gratuitous cruelty

Derived terms

• gratuitement

Descendants

• → Dutch: gratuit
• → Romanian: gratuit

Further reading

• “gratuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• “gratuit”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• “gratuit” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

Anagrams

• grutait

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin grātuītus. Attested from the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Adjective

gratuit m (feminine singular gratuita, masculine plural gratuits, feminine plural gratuitas)

1. free, free of charge

Derived terms

• gratuitament

Romanian

Alternative forms

• гратуит (gratuit) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French gratuit, from Latin gratuitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡra.tuˈit/
• Rhymes: -it
• Hyphenation: gra‧tu‧it

Adjective

gratuit m or n (feminine singular gratuită, masculine plural gratuiți, feminine/neuter plural gratuite)

1. free, without payment (which costs nothing, which is given or received without any payment)
2. (figuratively) useless (which proves unnecessary)
3. (figuratively) baseless, unfounded (unsupported by evidence or facts)

Declension

Declension of gratuit

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	gratuit		gratuită	gratuiți	gratuite
	definite	gratuitul		gratuita	gratuiții	gratuitele
genitive- dative	indefinite	gratuit		gratuite	gratuiți	gratuite
	definite	gratuitului		gratuitei	gratuiților	gratuitelor

Further reading

• “gratuit”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026