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.

We also provide translations of “gratis software” in a separate column to show how to make the contrast in various languages.

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The parenthesized phrases in Latin letters after some of the entries are transliterations (with vowels added where relevant). Please send any corrections or additions to those, too.

Language Code	Language Name	Free Software	Gratis Software
af	Afrikaans	vrye sagteware	gratis sagteware
ar	Arabic	برمجيات حرة (barmajiyat ḥorrah)
be	Belarusian	свабоднае праграмнае забесьпячэньне (svabodnae pragramnae zabes'pjachen'ne)
bg	Bulgarian	свободен софтуер (svoboden softuer)	безплатен софтуер (bezplaten softuer)
bn	Bengali	স্বাধীন সফটওয়্যার (swadhin software)
ca	Catalan	programari lliure	programari gratuït
cs	Czech	svobodný software	bezplatný software
cy	Welsh	meddalwedd rydd
da	Danish	fri software / frit programmel	gratis software
de	German	Freie Software	Gratis-Software / Kostenlose Software
el	Greek	ελεύθερο λογισμικό (elefthero logismiko)	δωρεάν λογισμικό (dorean logismiko)
eo	Esperanto	libera programaro / programo
eu	Basque	software librea	doako softwarea
es	Spanish	software libre	software gratuito
et	Estonian	vaba tarkvara	tasuta tarkvara
fa	Persian (Farsi)	نرم‌افزار آزاد (narmafzar azad)	نرم‌افزار رایگان (narmafzar raygan)
fi	Finnish	vapaa ohjelmisto	ilmainen ohjelmisto
fr	French	logiciel libre	logiciel gratuit
ga	Irish	Saorbhogearraí	Bogearraí saora in aisce
he	Hebrew	תוכנה חופשית (tochna chofshit)	תוכנה חינמית (tochna chinamit)
hi	Hindi	मुक्त सॉफ्टवेयर (mukt software)	मुफ़्त सॉफ्टवेयर (muft software)
hr	Croatian	slobodan softver	besplatan softver
hu	Hungarian	szabad szoftver	ingyenes szoftver / ingyen szoftver
hy	Armenian	ազատ ծրագիր/ծրագրեր (azat tsragir/tsragrer)
ia	Interlingua	libere programmage / libere programmario
id	Indonesian	perangkat lunak bebas
io	Ido	libera programaro
is	Icelandic	frjáls hugbúnaður
it	Italian	software libero	software gratuito
ja	Japanese	自由ソフトウェア (jiyū sofutouea)	無料ソフトウェア (muryō sofutouea)
ka	Georgian	თავისუფალი პროგრამები (tavisupali programebi)	უფასო პროგრამები (upaso programebi)
ko	Korean	자유 소프트웨어 (ja-yu software)
lt	Lithuanian	laisva programinė įranga	nemokama programinė įranga
lv	Latvian	brīva programmatūra	bezmaksas programmatūra
mk	Macedonian	слободен софтвер (sloboden softver)	бесплатен софтвер (besplaten softver)
ml	Malayalam	സ്വതന്ത്രസോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ (svatantrasophṯṯveyar)	സൗജന്യസോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ (soujanyasophṯṯveyar)
ms	Malay	perisian bebas
nl	Dutch	vrije software	gratis software
no	Norwegian	fri programvare
pl	Polish	wolne oprogramowanie	darmowe oprogramowanie
pt	Portuguese	software livre
ro	Romanian	programe libere	programe gratuite
ru	Russian	свободные программы (svobodnie programmi)	бесплатные программы (besplatnie programmi)
sc	Sardinian	software liberu
si	Sinhala	නිදහස් මෘදුකාංග (nidahas mṛdukāṅga)
sk	Slovak	slobodný softvér
sl	Slovenian	prosto programje
sq	Albanian	software i lirë	software falas
sr	Serbian	слободни софтвер / slobodni softver	бесплатни софтвер / besplatni softver
sv	Swedish	fri programvara / fri mjukvara
sw	Swahili	Software huru / Programu huru za Kompyuta
ta	Tamil	கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் (kaṭṭaṟṟa meṉpoñaḷ)	இலவச மென்பொருள் (illavasa menporul)
th	Thai	ซอฟต์แวร์เสรี (sofotwerseri)
tl	Tagalog / Filipino	malayang software
tr	Turkish	özgür yazılım
uk	Ukrainian	вільне програмне забезпечення (vil'ne prohramne zabezpechennja)
ur	Urdu	آزاد سافٹ ویئر (azad software)	مفت سافٹ ویئر (muft software)
vi	Vietnamese	phần mềm tự do
zh-cn	Chinese (Simplified)	自由软件 (zi-you ruan-jian)	免费软件 (mian-fei ruan-jian)
zh-tw	Chinese (Traditional)	自由軟體 (zih-yo)	免費軟體 (mien-fei)
zu	Zulu	Isoftware Ekhululekile