Translations of the term “free software”
This is a list of recommended unambiguous translations for the term “free software” (free as in freedom) into various languages.
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- Afrikaans: vrye sagteware
- Albanian: software i lirë
- Arabic: برمجيات حرة (barmagiyat ḥorrah)
- Armenian: ազատ ծրագիր/ծրագրեր (azat tsragir/tsragrer)
- Belarusian: свабоднае праграмнае забесьпячэньне (svabodnae pragramnae zabes'pjachen'ne)
- Bulgarian: свободен софтуер (svoboden softuer)
- Catalan: programari lliure
- Chinese(Simplified): 自由软件 (zi-you ruan-jian)
- Chinese(Traditional): 自由軟體 (zih-yo)
- Czech: svobodný software
- Croatian/Serbian: slobodni softver
- Danish: fri software OR frit programmel
- Dutch: vrije software
- Esperanto: libera programaro / programo
- Estonian: vaba tarkvara
- Farsi (= Persian): نرمافزارِ آزاد
- Finnish: vapaa ohjelmisto
- French: logiciel libre
- German: freie Software
- Greek: ελεύθερο λογισμικό (eleuthero logismiko)
- Hebrew: תוכנה חופשית (tochna chofshit)
- Hindi: मुक्त सॉफ्टवेयर (mukt software)
- Hungarian: szabad szoftver
- Icelandic: frjáls hugbúnaður
- Ido: libera programaro
- Indonesian: perangkat lunak bebas
- Interlingua: libere programmage / libere programmario
- Irish: bog earraí saoire
- Italian: software libero
- Japanese: 自由ソフトウェア (jiyuu software)
- Korean: 자유 소프트웨어 (ja-yu software)
- Lithuanian: laisva programinė įranga
- Norwegian: fri programvare
- Macedonian: слободен софтвер (sloboden softver)
- Malay: perisian bebas
- Malayalam: സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര്
- Persian (= Farsi): نرمافزارِ آزاد
- Polish: wolne oprogramowanie
- Portuguese: software livre
- Romanian: software liber
- Russian: свободные программы (svobodnie programmi)
- Sardinian: software liberu
- Serbian/Croatian: слободни софтвер (slobodni softver)
- Slovak: slobodný softvér
- Slovenian: prosto programje
- Spanish: software libre
- Swahili: Programu huru za Kompyuta
- Swedish: fri programvara, fri mjukvara
- Tagalog/Filipino: malayang software
- Tamil: கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள்
- Thai: ซอฟต์แวร์เสรี
- Turkish: özgür yazılım
- Ukrainian: вільне програмне забезпечення (vil'ne prohramne zabezpechennja)
- Vietnamese: phần mềm tự do
- Welsh: meddalwedd rydd
- Zulu: Isoftware Ekhululekile