life sentence

English

Noun

life sentence (plural life sentences)

1. (law) A sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life.

Translations

sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life

• Arabic: سَجْن مَدَى اَلْحَيَاة‏‎ m (sajn madā l-ḥayāh)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無期徒刑 (zh), 无期徒刑 (zh) (wúqī túxíng), 終身監禁 (zh), 终身监禁 (zh) (zhōngshēn jiānjìn)

• Czech: doživotí n
• Dutch: levenslange gevangenisstraf c
• Finnish: elinkautinen
• French: condamnation à perpétuité f, emprisonnement à perpétuité m
• German: lebenslange Haftstrafe, lebenslänglich (de)
• Greek: ισόβια (el) f (isóvia)

• Hungarian: életfogytiglan (hu)
• Italian: ergastolo (it) m
• Japanese: 終身刑 (しゅうしんけい, shūshinkei)
• Korean: 종신형 (ko) (jongsinhyeong) (終身刑 (ko))
• Polish: dożywocie (pl) n
• Portuguese: prisão perpétua f
• Russian: пожи́зненное заключе́ние n (požíznennoje zaključénije)
• Spanish: cadena perpetual f