# gratis
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gratis.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɡɹɑː.tɪs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːtɪs
* (US) IPA: /ˈɡɹætɪs/
* Hyphenation: grat‧is

### Adjective

gratis (not comparable)
* Free: without charge.
    Synonyms: costless, feeless, free of charge; free as in beer
    Antonym: see at nonfree
    Coordinate terms: libre, free as in speech
** 2010 September 27, Ann Charters, Samuel Charters, quoting John Clellon Holmes, Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation‎, →ISBN, page 162:Really syncophant stuff, but it may help. It's gratis in any case.

#### Translations
### Adverb

gratis (not comparable)
* In a free way: without charge.
    Synonyms: costlessly, free of charge
** c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:I know not how they sold themselves: but thou, like a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I thank thee for thee.
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 45:Reaſon, you roague, reaſon: thinkſt thou Ile endanger my soule, gratis?

#### Related terms

* gratuitous
* gratuity

#### See also

* libre

### Anagrams

* striga, trigas

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch gratis, from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈχrɑːtəs/, [ˈχrɔːtəs]
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

gratis
* free, without charge

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɾa.tis]

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin grātīs.

#### Adverb

gratis
* free, for free
    Synonyms: de franc, gratuïtament

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

gratis
* second-person singular present subjunctive of gratar

### Further reading

* “gratis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Czech
### Etymology

From Latin grātīs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɡraːtɪs]

### Adverb

gratis
* free, without charge
    Synonyms: zdarma, zadarmo, zadarmiko, zadara

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡraːtis/, [ˈɡ̊ʁɑːd̥is]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: gra‧tis

### Adjective

gratis (neuter gratis, plural and definite singular attributive gratis)
* gratis, free (obtainable without payment)

### Adverb

gratis
* gratis, free (without needing to pay)

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɣraːtɪs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: gra‧tis

### Adjective

gratis (not comparable)
* free, without charge
    Synonyms: kosteloos, koefnoen

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: gratis
* → Caribbean Javanese: gratis
* → Indonesian: gratis
* → Javanese: ꦒꦿꦠꦶꦱ꧀ (gratis)

## Esperanto
### Verb

gratis
* past of grati

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grātīs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʁa.tis/
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

gratis
* free, without charge, gratis
    Synonym: gratuitement

### Adjective

gratis (invariable)
* free; for free, without charge
    Synonym: gratuit

### Further reading

* “gratis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* grátis (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

From Latin gratis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾatis/ [ˈɡɾa.t̪is̺]
* IPA: (standard) /ˈɡɾatis/ [ˈɡɾa.t̪is̺]
* IPA: (gheada) /ˈħɾatis/ [ˈħɾa.t̪is̺]
* Rhymes: -atis
* Hyphenation: gra‧tis

### Adjective

gratis (invariable)
* free, without charge
    Synonym: gratuíto

### Adverb

gratis
* free, without charge
    Synonym: gratuitamente

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grātīs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡʁaːtɪs/
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

gratis
* free, without charge
    Synonyms: umsonst, kostenlos, kostenfrei, (colloquial) für lau, für umme

### Further reading

* “gratis” in Duden online
* “gratis” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch gratis, from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈɡratis/ [ˈɡra.t̪ɪs]
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -atis
* Syllabification: gra‧tis

### Adjective

gratis
* free, without charge
    Synonyms: cuma-cuma, percuma
    Aku dapat kopi ini dengan gratis. ― I got this coffee for free.

#### Derived terms

* gratisan
* gratiskan

#### Related terms

* grasi

### Further reading

* “gratis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin gratis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡra.tis/
* Rhymes: -atis
* Hyphenation: grà‧tis

### Adverb

gratis
* for free, gratis
    Synonym: gratuitamente

### Adjective

gratis (invariable)
* free
    Synonym: gratuito

#### Related terms

* a gratis

### Further reading

* gratis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* stragi, striga

## Latin
### Etymology

Contracted from grātiīs.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈɡraː.tiːs/, [ˈɡräːt̪iːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈɡra.tis/, [ˈɡräːt̪is]

### Adverb

grātīs (not comparable)
* out of favor or kindness, without recompense or compensation, gratuitously, freely

#### Synonyms

* grātuītō

#### Related terms

* grātē
* grātēs
* grātia
* grātificātiō
* grātificor
* grātiīs
* grātiōsus
* grātor
* grātuītus
* grātulātiō
* grātulor
* grātus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: gratis
* Dutch: gratis
** Afrikaans: gratis
** → Caribbean Javanese: gratis
** → Indonesian: gratis
** → Javanese: ꦒꦿꦠꦶꦱ꧀ (gratis)
* English: gratis
* French: gratis
* Galician: gratis
* German: gratis
* Italian: gratis
* Portuguese: grátis
* Romanian: gratis
* Spanish: gratis
* Norwegian: gratis

### References

* "gratis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* “gratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “gratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* gratis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. a thing costs nothing: aliquid nihilo or gratis constat

## Malay
### Etymology

From Dutch gratis, from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.

### Adjective

gratis (Jawi spelling ݢراتيس)
* (Indonesia) free, without charge

#### Synonyms

* (Malaysia) percuma

### Further reading

* “gratis” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grātīs.

### Adjective

gratis (indeclinable)
* free (obtainable without payment)

#### Derived terms

* gratisavis

### References

* “gratis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grātīs.

### Adjective

gratis (indeclinable)
* free (obtainable without payment)

#### Derived terms

* gratisavis

### References

* “gratis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin grātīs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡra.tis/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -atis
* Syllabification: gra‧tis

### Noun

gratis m inan
* perquisite, free gift

#### Declension
### Adverb

gratis (not comparable)
* gratis, free of charge
    Synonyms: bezpłatnie, darmo, darmowo, nieodpłatnie, za darmo
    Antonyms: odpłatnie, płatnie

#### Derived terms

* gratisowy
* gratisowo

### Further reading

* gratis in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* gratis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Adverb

gratis (not comparable)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of grátis.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gratis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡra.tis]
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

gratis
* free of charge, for free

### Adjective

gratis m or f or n (indeclinable)
* free of charge, for free

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin grātīs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾatis/ [ˈɡɾa.t̪is]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -atis
* Syllabification: gra‧tis

### Adjective

gratis (invariable)
* free, without charge
    Synonym: gratuito

#### Derived terms

* de gratis

### Adverb

gratis
* free, without charge
    Synonym: gratuitamente

### Further reading

* “gratis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grātiīs. First attested in 1638.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡrɑːtiːs/
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

gratis (not comparable)
* free, without charge [since 1638]

### Adjective

gratis (not inflected, not comparable)
* free, without charge [since 1850]

### Usage notes

* Generally, when something is gratis, it is entirely free of charge in every way. If something is included at no extra cost with a purchase, it is på köpet (literally “on the purchase”). Note, however, that this distinction is weaker in colloquial contexts.

### See also

* grattis (“congratulation”)

### References

* 1 2 3 gratis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* ↑ Stefan Wahlberg, John Olsson (2016 November 10) “Ord som ’gratis’ får användas i reklam – om det inte finns krav på motprestation”, in Dagens Jurudik‎ (in Swedish), archived from the original on 2024-11-19: “Användande av ord som ”gratis”, ”kostnadsfri”, ”utan avgift”, ”present” eller liknande i reklam får endast användas om det inte finns krav på att konsumenten utför en motprestation mot annonsören för att erhålla den produkt som är ”gratis”. I andra fall är reklamen otillbörlig och därmed otillåten. ― The use of words such as “gratis,” “free of charge,” “no fee,” “gift,” or similar in advertising is only permitted if the consumer is not required to provide any form of compensation to the advertiser in order to receive the product that is described as “gratis.” In other cases, the advertisement is improper and therefore prohibited.”

### Further reading

* gratis in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
* gratis in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

### Anagrams

* girats, stigar, trasig