| Part of speech | common noun |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /mɵs/ |
| Hyphenation | mus |
| Gender | historically feminine, nowadays also masculine |
| Plural | mussen |
| Diminutive | |
|---|---|
| Singular | Plural |
| musje | musjes |
| Afrikaans | mossie |
|---|---|
| Catalan | pardal |
| Czech | vrabec |
| Danish | spurv |
| English | sparrow |
| Esperanto | pasero |
| Faeroese | spurvur |
| Finnish | varpunen |
| French | moineau; passereau |
| German | Spatz; Sperling |
| Greek | σπουργίτι |
| Italian | passero |
| Latin | passer |
| Norwegian | spurv |
| Portuguese | pardal; pássaro |
| Russian | воробей |
| Saterland Frisian | Lüünek |
| Spanish | gorrión |
| Swedish | gråsparv; sparv; tätting |
| West Frisian | mosk |