| Part of speech | common noun |
|---|---|
| Gender | neuter |
| Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | barn | barnet | børn | børnene |
| Genitive | barns | barnets | børns | børnenes |
| Afrikaans | kind |
|---|---|
| Dutch | kind; koter |
| English | child |
| Esperanto | infano |
| French | enfant |
| German | Kind |
| Hawaiian | keiki |
| Low German | kind |
| Papiamento | yiu |
| Spanish | hijo |
| Swahili | mtoto; mwana |
| Swedish | barn |
| Tagalog | anák |
| Thai | ลูก |
| Welsh | plentyn |
| Yiddish | קינד |