Yes. An -module over a field is a vector space. Start with a finite generating list. If it is linearly dependent, one vector has a nonzero coefficient in a linear relation; dividing by that coefficient expresses the vector using the others, so it can be removed without changing the span. Repeating terminates with a linearly independent generating list, which is a basis and therefore a basis of a module.
Thus every finitely generated module over a field is a free module. For the zero module, the empty list is the required basis of a module.
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