He is the lawful owner of the company.
Source: tatoeba (290623)
Lawful
Synonyms for "lawful" (146 found)
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11 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- قانوني adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Bulgarian
1 entries- законен adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 合法的 adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Dutch
2 entries- rechtmatig adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- wettig adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Finnish
3 entries- laillinen adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- lainmukainen adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- oikeutettu adj (operating according to some law or fundamental principle)
French
1 entries- légal adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Georgian
1 entries- კანონიერი adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
German
3 entries- gesetzlich adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- legal adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- rechtsmäßig adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Hindi
1 entries- विधिक adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Hungarian
2 entries- törvényes adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- törvényszerű adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Icelandic
1 entries- löglegur adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Irish
1 entries- dleathach adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Japanese
1 entries- 合法な adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Latin
1 entries- lēgitimus adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Latvian
1 entries- likumīgs adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- gesetzlech adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Macedonian
1 entries- законит adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Middle English
1 entries- laweful adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Old English
1 entries- ǣwlīċ adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Polish
4 entries- legalny adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- prawomierny adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- prawomocny adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- prawowierny adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Portuguese
2 entries- legal adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- legalizado adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Romanian
1 entries- legal adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Russian
3 entries- зако́нный adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- лега́льный adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- правоме́рный adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dligheach adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Spanish
3 entries- legal adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- legítimo adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- lícito adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Swahili
1 entries- halali adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Swedish
3 entries- berättigad adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- laglig adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
- rättmätig adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Tajik
1 entries- расмӣ adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Turkish
1 entries- yasal adj (conforming to or recognised by law or rules)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
He recognized his son as lawful heir.
Source: tatoeba (300988)
I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished.
Source: tatoeba (733861)
We need to handle this in a lawful manner.
Source: tatoeba (812468)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.