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primary school ‎(plural primary schools)

(Britain, education) The first formal, obligatory school. Usually begins with nursery school or first grade and ends at fifth or sixth grade.
The child's mother was tearful as he boarded the bus for his first day of primary school.

first formal, obligatory school

Afrikaans: laerskool
Arabic: اَلْمَدْرَسَة اَلاِبْتِدَائِيَّة f ‎(al-madrasa l-ibtidāʾiyya)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小學 (zh), 小学 (zh) ‎(xiǎoxué)
Crimean Tatar: başlanğıç mektep, iptidaiy mektep
Czech: základní škola (cs) f (not one-to-one)
Danish: grundskole (da) c, underskole c
Dutch: basisschool (nl) c, lagere school c
Esperanto: elementa lernejo, bazlernejo
Finnish: peruskoulu (fi), ala-aste (fi)
French: école primaire (fr) f
German: Grundschule (de) f, (dated) Volksschule (de) f
Greek: δημοτικό σχολείο (el) n ‎(dimotikó scholeío)
Hindi: प्राथमिक विद्यालय m ‎(prāthmik vidyālay), प्राइमरी स्कूल m ‎(prāimrī skūl)
Hungarian: általános iskola (hu)
Icelandic: grunnskóli (is) m, barnaskóli m
Irish: bunscoil f
Italian: scuola elementare
Japanese: 小学校 (ja) ‎(しょうがっこう, shōgakkō)
Khmer: សាលាបឋម ‎(sala bak thom)
Korean: 초등학교 (ko) ‎(chodeunghakgyo), 국민학교 (ko) ‎(gungminhakgyo) (obsolete, before 1996), 소학교 (ko) ‎(sohakgyo) (North)
Kurdish:
Sorani: مه‌کته‌بی سه‌ره‌تایی ‎(maktabi saratAyee)

Latin: ludus litterarius, educatio primaria
Latvian: sākumskola m, pamatskola m
Lithuanian: pradinė mokykla
Luxembourgish: Primärschoul f, Grondschoul f
Macedonian: основно училиште n ‎(ósnovno učílište), осмолетка f ‎(osmolétka)
Malay: sekolah rendah
Norwegian: grunnskole (no)
Persian: دبستان (fa) ‎(dabestân)
Polish: szkoła podstawowa (pl) f
Portuguese: ensino primário m
Romanian: școală primară (ro) f, școală elementară f
Russian: семиле́тка (ru) f ‎(semilétka), нача́льная шко́ла (ru) f ‎(načálʹnaja škóla)
Scottish Gaelic: bun-sgoil f
Spanish: escuela primaria f
Swedish: grundskola (sv) c, lågstadie c
Thai: ประถมศึกษา
Vietnamese:
Volapük: pöpajul (vo), donajul
Welsh: ysgol gynradd
Yiddish: פֿאָלקשול f ‎(folkshul), פֿאָלקסשול f ‎(folksshul)