civil union (plural civil unions )
A legal union similar to marriage , established to allow same-sex couples (and, in some jurisdictions, opposite-sex couples) rights similar to those married couples have.
legal union similar to marriage
Afrikaans: burgerlike verbintenis
Asturian: xunión civil f
Basque: batasun zibil , izatezko bikote
Breton: emglev keodedel a gengred m
Bulgarian: граждански съюз m ( graždanski sǎjuz )
Catalan: unió estable de parella f , unió civil f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 民事結合 / 民事结合 ( mínshì jiéhé ) , 公民結合 / 公民结合 ( gōngmín jiéhé )
Classical Nahuatl: nemekatilistli
Czech: registrované partnerství n
Dutch: geregistreerd partnerschap n
Esperanto: registrita partnereco
Finnish: siviiliavioliitto , rekisteröity parisuhde (fi)
French: union civile (fr) f , pacte civil de solidarité (fr) m , partenariat enregistré f
Galician: unión civil (gl) f
German: eingetragene Partnerschaft f
Hawaiian: uniona kīwila
Indonesian: persatuan sipil
Irish: cumann sibhialta m
Italian: unione civile (it) f
Japanese: 市民の結合 ( しみんのけつごう, shimin no ketsugō )
Maltese: unjoni ċivili f
Mirandese: ounion de fato f
Norman: parchonn'nie civile f ( Jersey )
Norwegian: registrert partnerskap
Occitan: union civila f
Papiamentu: union civil
Polish: rejestrowany związek partnerski m
Portuguese: união civil f , união de facto f ( Portugal ) , união estável f ( Brazil )
Russian: гражда́нский брак (ru) m ( graždánskij brak ) , гражданское партнёрство n ( graždanskoje partnjórstvo )
Slovak: registrované partnerstvo n
Spanish: unión civil f , unión de hecho f , pareja de hecho f
Swedish: registrerat partnerskap
Tahitian: faʻaauraʻa autaeaʻeraʻa
Turkish: medeni birliktelik
Ukrainian: цивільне партнерство n ( cyvilʹne partnerstvo )
Vietnamese: kết hợp dân sự
Welsh: uniad sifil m