beneficial

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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: bĕnĭfĭsh'əl
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: bĕnəfĭsh'əl
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ɫ̩]
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˌbɛn.əˈfɪʃ.əl/
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˌbɛn.əˈfɪʃ.ɫ̩]
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• Australian: /ˌben.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
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• Australian: [ˌben.ɪˈfɪʃ.ɫ̩]
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• Australian: /ˌben.əˈfɪʃ.əl/
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• Australian: [ˌben.əˈfɪʃ.ɫ̩]
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• New-Zealand: /ˌben.əˈfəʃ.əl/
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• New-Zealand: [ˌben.əˈfəʃ.ɫ̩]
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• CMU ARPABET: B EH2 N AH0 F IH1 SH AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Latin beneficiālis (“beneficial”), from Latin beneficium (“benefit, favor, kindness”).

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُفِيد (mufīd) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Armenian: շահեկան (šahekan) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Armenian: օգտակար (ōgtakar) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Asturian: beneficiosu — helpful or good to something or someone
• Asturian: benéficu — helpful or good to something or someone
• Azerbaijani: faydalı — helpful or good to something or someone
• Azerbaijani: xeyirli — helpful or good to something or someone
• Belarusian: кары́сны (karýsny) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Belarusian: выго́дны (vyhódny) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Belarusian: дабратво́рны (dabratvórny) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Bulgarian: благотво́рен (blagotvóren) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Bulgarian: поле́зен (polézen) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Catalan: beneficiós — helpful or good to something or someone
• Chinese Mandarin: 有益的 (yǒuyì de) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Chinese Mandarin: 有利的 (yǒulì de) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Czech: prospěšný — helpful or good to something or someone
• Danish: gavnlig — helpful or good to something or someone
• Dutch: gunstig — helpful or good to something or someone
• Finnish: hyödyllinen — helpful or good to something or someone
• Finnish: suotuisa — helpful or good to something or someone
• Finnish: tervetullut — helpful or good to something or someone
• Finnish: hyvästä — helpful or good to something or someone
• French: bienfaisante — helpful or good to something or someone
• French: bénéfique — helpful or good to something or someone
• Galician: beneficioso — helpful or good to something or someone
• Galician: benéfico — helpful or good to something or someone
• German: nützlich — helpful or good to something or someone
• German: vorteilhaft — helpful or good to something or someone
• Greek: ωφέλιμος (ofélimos) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Greek: επωφελής (epofelís) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Ancient Greek: ὠφέλιμος (ōphélimos) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Hebrew: מועיל (moíl) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Hebrew: מיטיב (metív) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Hindi: लाभदायक (lābhdāyak) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Hindi: हितकारी (hitkārī) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Hindi: लाभप्रद (lābhaprad) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Italian: benefico — helpful or good to something or someone
• Japanese: 有益な (yūeki na) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Korean: 유익하다 (yuikhada) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Korean: 이롭다 (iropda) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Northern Kurdish: sûdbexş — helpful or good to something or someone
• Macedonian: добротворен (dobrotvoren) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Māori: whaihua — helpful or good to something or someone
• Māori: whaioranga — helpful or good to something or someone
• Middle English: spedful — helpful or good to something or someone
• Norwegian Bokmål: fordelaktig — helpful or good to something or someone
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fordelaktig — helpful or good to something or someone
• Persian: مفید (mofid) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Persian: سودمند (sôdmand) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Plautdietsch: nutzboa — helpful or good to something or someone
• Polish: korzystny — helpful or good to something or someone
• Portuguese: benéfico — helpful or good to something or someone
• Russian: благотво́рный (blagotvórnyj) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Russian: поле́зный (poléznyj) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Serbo-Croatian: благотворан — helpful or good to something or someone
• Serbo-Croatian: користан — helpful or good to something or someone
• Serbo-Croatian: blagotvoran — helpful or good to something or someone
• Serbo-Croatian: koristan — helpful or good to something or someone
• Slovak: prospešný — helpful or good to something or someone
• Slovene: koristen — helpful or good to something or someone
• Slovene: dobrodejen — helpful or good to something or someone
• Spanish: beneficioso — helpful or good to something or someone
• Swedish: fördelaktig — helpful or good to something or someone
• Swedish: gynnsam — helpful or good to something or someone
• Ukrainian: кори́сний (korýsnyj) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Ukrainian: ви́гідний (výhidnyj) — helpful or good to something or someone
• Ukrainian: благотво́рний (blahotvórnyj) — helpful or good to something or someone
• French: bénéficial — relating to a benefice