friends

See also: Friends and friend

English

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /fɹɛn(d)z/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

friends

plural of friend
Participants in a two-way friendship relationship.
I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never really made friends. She was never a friend to me.

Jane and I made friends right away.

We became friends in the war and remain friends to this day.

We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.

Usage notes

We usually make a friend, or make friends with someone. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Translations

participants in a two-way friendship

Arabic: أَصْدِقَاء‎ (ʾaṣdiqāʾ)
Belarusian: сябры (sjabry)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 朋友 (zh), 朋友 (zh) (péngyǒumen)

Min Nan: 朋友 (zh-min-nan) (pêng-iú)
Dutch: vrienden (nl)
Esperanto: amikoj (eo), amikinoj f
Finnish: ystävät (fi)
French: amis (fr)
German: Freunde (de), Freundinnen (de) f
Greek: φίλοι (el) (fíloi)

Hebrew: חברים‎ (khaverím)
Igbo: ọyi
Italian: amici (it), amice f
Japanese: 友人 (ja) (yūjin)
Korean: 친구 (ko) (chin-gu)
Polish: przyjaciele
Portuguese: amigos (pt), amigas (pt) f
Russian: друзья́ (ru) (druzʹjá)
Spanish: amigos (es), amigas (es) f
Swedish: vänner (sv) c pl

Verb

friends

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of friend

Anagrams

finders, redfins, refinds

Spanish

Noun

friends m pl

plural of friend

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