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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/
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• UK: /fɹɪˈkwɛnt/
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• CMU ARPABET: F R IY1 K W AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bhrekw- (“to cram together”).

From Old French frequenter, from Latin frequentare (“to fill, crowd, visit often, do or use often, etc.”), from frequens (“frequent, crowded”).

98 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُتَكَرِّر (mutakarrir) — done or occurring often
• Asturian: frecuente — done or occurring often
• Belarusian: ча́сты (částy) — done or occurring often
• Bulgarian: чест (čest) — done or occurring often
• Catalan: freqüent — done or occurring often
• Chinese Mandarin: 頻繁 /频繁 (pínfán) — done or occurring often
• Czech: častý — done or occurring often
• Danish: hyppig — done or occurring often
• Danish: tit — done or occurring often
• Danish: ofte — done or occurring often
• Dutch: veelvuldig — done or occurring often
• Dutch: frequent — done or occurring often
• Esperanto: ofta — done or occurring often
• Finnish: yleinen — done or occurring often
• Finnish: toistuva — done or occurring often
• Finnish: jatkuva — done or occurring often
• Finnish: taaja — done or occurring often
• Finnish: usein tapahtuva — done or occurring often
• French: fréquent — done or occurring often
• Georgian: ხშირი (xširi) — done or occurring often
• German: häufig — done or occurring often
• Greek: συχνός (sychnós) — done or occurring often
• Ancient Greek: συχνός (sukhnós) — done or occurring often
• Ancient Greek: πυκνός (puknós) — done or occurring often
• Hindi: बार बार (bār bār) — done or occurring often
• Hindi: बारंबार (bārambār) — done or occurring often
• Hungarian: gyakori — done or occurring often
• Icelandic: tíður — done or occurring often
• Irish: minic — done or occurring often
• Italian: frequente — done or occurring often
• Italian: assiduo — done or occurring often
• Japanese: 頻繁な (hinpan na) — done or occurring often
• Korean: 빈번한 (binbeonhan) — done or occurring often
• Latin: frequēns — done or occurring often
• Latin: saepis — done or occurring often
• Latin: creber — done or occurring often
• Latvian: biežs — done or occurring often
• Lithuanian: dažnas — done or occurring often
• Malay: kerap — done or occurring often
• Manx: mennick — done or occurring often
• Māori: pūputu — done or occurring often
• Māori: putuputu — done or occurring often
• Māori: auau — done or occurring often
• Mauritian Creole: frekan — done or occurring often
• Norwegian: hyppig — done or occurring often
• Old Norse: iðuligr — done or occurring often
• Old Norse: iðugligr — done or occurring often
• Polish: częsty — done or occurring often
• Portuguese: freqüente — done or occurring often
• Portuguese: frequente — done or occurring often
• Romanian: frecvent — done or occurring often
• Russian: ча́стый (částyj) — done or occurring often
• Scottish Gaelic: minig — done or occurring often
• Serbo-Croatian: чест — done or occurring often
• Serbo-Croatian: čest — done or occurring often
• Slovak: častý — done or occurring often
• Spanish: frecuente — done or occurring often
• Turkish: sıkça — done or occurring often
• Ukrainian: ча́стий (částyj) — done or occurring often
• Vietnamese: thường xuyên — done or occurring often
• Welsh: aelaw — done or occurring often
• Welsh: aml — done or occurring often
• Arabic: اِرْتَادَ (irtāda) — to visit often
• Bulgarian: посещавам често (poseštavam često) — to visit often
• Catalan: freqüentar — to visit often
• Chichewa: kubwérabwera — to visit often
• Czech: často chodit — to visit often
• Czech: pravidelně navštěvovat — to visit often
• Danish: besøge — to visit often
• Danish: frekventere — to visit often
• Esperanto: vizitadi — to visit often
• Finnish: käydä usein — to visit often
• French: fréquenter — to visit often
• French: hanter — to visit often
• Galician: frecuentar — to visit often
• Galician: amiudar — to visit often
• Ancient Greek: φοιτάω (phoitáō) — to visit often
• Hungarian: látogat — to visit often
• Hungarian: jár — to visit often
• Hungarian: eljár — to visit often
• Icelandic: stunda — to visit often
• Icelandic: sækja — to visit often
• Icelandic: venja komur sínar á — to visit often
• Icelandic: venja komur sínar í — to visit often
• Irish: minicigh — to visit often
• Italian: frequentare — to visit often
• Māori: hōngongoi — to visit often
• Māori: hōngoingoi — to visit often
• Māori: muremure — to visit often
• Occitan: frequentar — to visit often
• Polish: uczęszczać — to visit often
• Polish: bywać — to visit often
• Portuguese: frequentar — to visit often
• Russian: ча́сто посеща́ть (částo poseščátʹ) — to visit often
• Russian: захаживать (zaxaživatʹ) — to visit often
• Russian: части́ть (častítʹ) — to visit often
• Spanish: frecuentar — to visit often
• Spanish: prodigarse — to visit often