fluent

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• UK: /ˈfluːənt/
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• General-American: /ˈfluənt/
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• obsolete: /ˈfljuːɛnt/
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• /flɪu̯ənt/ Wales, Ottawa Valley
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ʊənt
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• CMU ARPABET: F L UW1 AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of fluō (“to flow”).

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: течен (tečen) — that flows; flowing, liquid
• Bulgarian: подвижен (podvižen) — that flows; flowing, liquid
• German: fließend — that flows; flowing, liquid
• Latin: fluens — that flows; flowing, liquid
• Latin: prōfluens — that flows; flowing, liquid
• Spanish: fluyente — that flows; flowing, liquid
• Spanish: fluente — that flows; flowing, liquid
• Tamil: சரளமாக (caraḷamāka) — that flows; flowing, liquid
• Tamil: சரளமான (caraḷamāṉa) — that flows; flowing, liquid
• Arabic: طَلِق (ṭaliq) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Arabic: فَصِيح (faṣīḥ) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Arabic: لبلب (lebleb) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Armenian: սահուն (sahun) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Armenian: վարժ (varž) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Basque: arin — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Belarusian: бе́глы (bjéhly) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Bulgarian: свободен (svoboden) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Chinese Cantonese: 流利 (lau4 lei6) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Chinese: 輾轉 /辗转 (zh-min-nan) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Chinese Mandarin: 流利 (liúlì) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Chinese Mandarin: 滔滔 (tāotāo) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Chinese Mandarin: 暢達 /畅达 (chàngdá) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Czech: plynulý — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Czech: plynný — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Danish: flydende — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Dutch: vloeiend — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Esperanto: flua — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Estonian: sujuv — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Finnish: sujuva — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• French: parler couramment — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• German: fließend — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• German: flüssig — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Greek: ρευστός (refstós) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Greek: με ευχέρεια (me efchéreia) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Greek: ευφραδής (effradís) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Ancient Greek: εὔροος (eúroos) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Hawaiian: poeko — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Hungarian: folyékony — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Icelandic: reiprennandi — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Icelandic: altalandi — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Ido: eloquenta — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Indonesian: fasih — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Indonesian: lancar — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Italian: fluido — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Japanese: ぺらぺら (perapera) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Japanese: 流暢な (ryūchō-na) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Japanese: すらすら (surasura) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Kalmyk: усн (usn) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Kalmyk: келтә (keltä) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Khmer: ស្ទាត់ (stŏət) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Latin: fluens — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Latin: prōfluens — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Malay: fasih — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Māori: matatau — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Norwegian: flytende — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Norwegian Bokmål: flytende — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Norwegian Nynorsk: flytande — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Polish: płynny — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Polish: biegły — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Portuguese: fluente — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Romanian: fluent — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Russian: бе́глый (béglyj) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Russian: свобо́дный (svobódnyj) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Scottish Gaelic: siùbhlach — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Serbo-Croatian: tečan — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Slovene: tekoče — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Spanish: fluido — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Spanish: facundo — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Spanish: que domina — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Swedish: flytande — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Tagalog: bihasa — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Tagalog: matatas — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Tamil: சரளமாக (caraḷamāka) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Thai: คล่อง (klɔ̂ng) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Thai: คล่องแคล่ว — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Turkish: akıcı — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Ottoman Turkish: فصیح (fasih) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Ukrainian: ві́льно (vílʹno) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Vietnamese: lưu loát — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Vietnamese: trôi chảy — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Vietnamese: thành thạo — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Welsh: rhugl — able to speak a language accurately and confidently
• Yiddish: פֿליסיק (flisik) — able to speak a language accurately and confidently