| Part of speech | common noun |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /rɛm/ |
| Hyphenation | rem |
| Gender | historically feminine, nowadays also masculine |
| Plural | remmen |
| Albanian | frena |
|---|---|
| Catalan | fre |
| Czech | brzda |
| Danish | bremse |
| English | brake |
| Esperanto | bremso |
| Finnish | jarru |
| French | frein |
| Greek | τροχοπέδη; φρένο |
| Hungarian | fék |
| Italian | freno |
| Papiamento | brek; rèm |
| Portuguese | travão |
| Saterland Frisian | Brämse |
| Spanish | freno |
| Swahili | breki |
| Swedish | broms |
| Turkish | fren |