Translate text into any language.
Paste your text, choose a language, and get a natural, fluent translation that keeps your meaning and tone, not a clumsy word-for-word swap.
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See it in action
Thanks for your hard work this week. Please send me the final report by Friday so we can review it before the client call on Monday.
Gracias por tu esfuerzo esta semana. Por favor, envíame el informe final antes del viernes para que podamos revisarlo antes de la llamada con el cliente el lunes. (Example: translated to Spanish)
Translate preserves your meaning and tone across 13+ languages. This example shows Spanish.
What people translate
Whenever you need to be understood in another language.
Translate emails & messages
Work
Reach international colleagues and clients in their own language, naturally.
Understand foreign text
Study
Translate articles, notes and instructions into a language you read comfortably.
Everyday phrases
Travel
Quickly translate messages, signs or requests when you are on the move.
Localize your writing
Content
Turn a post or description into another language while keeping the meaning and tone.
Talk across languages
Family
Write to friends and family in the language they are most comfortable with.
Reply to customers
Support
Answer messages in the customer's language so nothing gets lost in translation.
How to get a natural translation, not a literal one
The difference between a good translation and a bad one is rarely vocabulary. It is naturalness. A word-for-word swap can be technically correct and still read as obviously foreign, because languages carry meaning in different structures, idioms and levels of formality. A good translation says what a native speaker would say, not what the dictionary maps to.
Meaning first, words second
Translate the intent, not just the tokens. "Break a leg" rendered literally means nothing in most languages; the natural equivalent is whatever that language says to wish someone luck. The best results come from asking for a translation that reads naturally to a native speaker, even when that means moving away from the exact original words.
What must survive the trip
- Names, numbers, dates and units, these stay exactly as they are.
- Tone and register, a formal email should stay formal; a casual note should stay casual.
- Formatting, the lists, line breaks and structure that help the reader.
Watch the formality level
Many languages encode politeness in ways English does not, a formal and an informal "you," honorifics, different verb endings. Getting this wrong can make a message sound rude or oddly stiff. If you know the relationship (a client versus a close friend), keep it in mind, because the right register matters as much as the right words.
When to get a human to check
For everyday messages, a good automatic translation is more than enough. For anything high-stakes, legal text, medical information, published marketing, or a message where tone could cause offence, have a fluent speaker review it. Machine translation gets you most of the way; a human closes the gap on nuance.
Translator FAQ
Paste your text, pick the language you want to translate into from the dropdown, then tap Translate. The result appears on the right.
Many major languages including Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Russian.
Yes. Translation is free with no account and no word limit, like the rest of the iTextwise tools.
Yes. It aims for natural, fluent translation that preserves your meaning, tone, names and numbers, not a stiff word-for-word swap.
You do not need to set the source language, just choose the target language and it translates your text into it.
Translated. Now make it shine.
Polish the tone or fix the grammar of your translated text in a tap.