for free

English

Prepositional phrase

for free

1. Without paying; free.

   We got all our food for free, it was included in the contract.

   • 1973, Billy Joel (lyrics and music), “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music), performed by Billy Joel:

     Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
     He gets me my drinks for free

2. (figuratively) Without effort; as a useful side-effect of something that was to be done anyway.

   When they fixed that one bug, we got this new software feature for free.

Synonyms

• free of charge
• gratis
• on the house

Translations

without paying

• Arabic: مَجَّانًا (majjānan)

  Egyptian Arabic: بلاش (balāš)

  North Levantine Arabic: بلاش (balāš)

  South Levantine Arabic: بلاش (balāš)

• Asturian: de baldre
• Bashkir: бушлай (buşlay)
• Belarusian: бяспла́тна (bjasplátna)
• Bulgarian: безпла́тно (bg) (bezplátno)
• Catalan: de franc (ca), d’arròs
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 免費 / 免费 (min⁵ fai³)

  Mandarin: 免費 / 免费 (zh) (miǎnfèi)

• Czech: zdarma (cs), zadarmo (cs), bezplatně
• Danish: gratis (da)
• Dutch: gratis (nl)
• Esperanto: senpage
• Faroese: ókeypis
• Finnish: ilmaiseksi (fi)
• French: gratuitement (fr)
• Galician: gratis (gl), de balde, de moca
• Georgian: უფასოდ (upasod), უსასყიდლოდ (usasq̇idlod)
• German: kostenlos (de), gratis (de), für lau (de) (slang), umsonst (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍂𐍅𐌾𐍉 (arwjō)
• Greek: δωρεάν (el) (doreán)

  Ancient: δωρεάν (dōreán)

• Hebrew: חינם (he) (khinám)
• Hungarian: ingyenesen (hu), ingyen (hu), díjmentesen (hu), térítésmentesen
• Indonesian: gratis (id), cuma-cuma (id)
• Ingrian: ilman
• Irish: in aisce
• Italian: gratis (it), a ufo (it)
• Japanese: 無料 (ja) (むりょう, muryō), 無料で (ja) (むりょうで, muryō de)
• Kabuverdianu: fabal
• Kazakh: текке (tekke)
• Khmer: ឥតគិតថ្លៃ (ʼĕtâkĭtthlai)
• Korean: 공짜로 (ko) (gongjja-ro)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: belaş (ku)

• Latin: grātīs
• Latvian: par brīvu, bezmaksas
• Macedonian: бесплатно (besplatno)
• Malay: percuma (ms)
• Malayalam: സൗജന്യമായി (saujanyamāyi), വെറുതെ (ml) (veṟute)
• Maori: utukore (mi)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: tʼáá jííkʼe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gratis (no)

• Persian: مفت (fa) (moft)
• Plautdietsch: emsonst
• Polish: bezpłatnie (pl), darmo (pl), za darmo (pl), gratis (pl), darmowo (pl), nieodpłatnie (pl)
• Portuguese: de graça (pt), grátis (pt)
• Romanian: gratis (ro), pe gratis
• Russian: беспла́тно (ru) (besplátno), да́ром (ru) (dárom), зада́ром (ru) (zadárom), на халя́ву (ru) (na xaljávu) (slang), задарма́ (ru) (zadarmá) (colloquial, nonstandard)
• Scottish Gaelic: an-asgaidh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бесплатно, џаба

  Roman: besplatno (sh), džaba (sh)

• Slovak: zadarmo (sk)
• Slovene: brezplačno, zastonj
• Spanish: gratis (es)
• Swedish: gratis (sv)
• Tatar: бушлай (buşlay)
• Turkish: ücretsiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: безкошто́вно (uk) (bezkoštóvno)
• Urdu: مفت (muft)
• Vietnamese: miễn phí (vi)
• Welsh: am ddim (cy)
• Yiddish: בחינם (bekhinem)
• Zazaki: belas

References

• “for free”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• offerer, reoffer