child's play

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃaɪldz ˌpleɪ/
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From child + -’s + play, originally referring literally to play by a child.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Cantonese: 兒戲 /儿戏 — something particularly easy or simple
• Chinese: 兒戲 /儿戏 (jî-hì; lî-hì) — something particularly easy or simple
• Chinese Mandarin: 兒戲 /儿戏 (érxì) — something particularly easy or simple
• Chinese Mandarin: 如同兒戲 /如同儿戏 (rútóng'érxì) — something particularly easy or simple
• Chinese Mandarin: 很容易的事 (hěn róngyì de shì) — something particularly easy or simple
• Chinese Mandarin: 小兒科 /小儿科 (xiǎo'érkē) — something particularly easy or simple
• Dutch: kinderspel — something particularly easy or simple
• Esperanto: infana ludo — something particularly easy or simple
• Finnish: lastenleikki — something particularly easy or simple
• French: jeu d'enfant — something particularly easy or simple
• German: Kinderspiel — something particularly easy or simple
• German: Spaziergang — something particularly easy or simple
• Ancient Greek: παιδιή (paidiḗ) — something particularly easy or simple
• Hindi: बच्चों का खेल (baccõ kā khel) — something particularly easy or simple
• Hungarian: gyerekjáték — something particularly easy or simple
• Icelandic: barnaleikur — something particularly easy or simple
• Icelandic: auðveldur — something particularly easy or simple
• Icelandic: innanhandar — something particularly easy or simple
• Icelandic: leika sér að — something particularly easy or simple
• Icelandic: leikur — something particularly easy or simple
• Italian: gioco da bambini — something particularly easy or simple
• Italian: gioco da ragazzi — something particularly easy or simple
• Japanese: 朝飯前のこと (asameshimae-no koto) — something particularly easy or simple
• Japanese: 児戯 (jigi) — something particularly easy or simple
• Japanese: お茶の子 (o-cha-no ko) — something particularly easy or simple
• Norwegian Bokmål: barnemat — something particularly easy or simple
• Norwegian Nynorsk: barnemat — something particularly easy or simple
• Plautdietsch: Spälarie — something particularly easy or simple
• Polish: dziecinada — something particularly easy or simple
• Polish: pikuś — something particularly easy or simple
• Portuguese: brincadeira de criança — something particularly easy or simple
• Romanian: joacă de copil — something particularly easy or simple
• Russian: игру́шки (igrúški) — something particularly easy or simple
• Russian: пустяки́ (pustjakí) — something particularly easy or simple
• Russian: се́мечки (sémečki) — something particularly easy or simple
• Serbo-Croatian: играрија — something particularly easy or simple
• Serbo-Croatian: igrarija — something particularly easy or simple
• Spanish: juego de niños — something particularly easy or simple
• Spanish: pan comido — something particularly easy or simple
• Spanish: una papa — something particularly easy or simple
• Swedish: barnlek — something particularly easy or simple
• Turkish: çocuk oyuncağı — something particularly easy or simple
• Urdu: بازِیچَۂ اَطْفَال (bāzīca-yi atfāl) — something particularly easy or simple
• Welsh: chwarae bach — something particularly easy or simple