The Translations2u team provides translation between many languages and our site is currently being updated to include more about our language translation pairs. If the language you require isn’t mentioned on our site, do get in touch because we have listed only the most popular language translation pairs.

 

When receiving a translation it is important to bear in mind several factors such as language structure, alphabet/script and word order.

 

For instance, we do our best to ensure the layout of your translation is as close to that of the document you gave us to translate. However, some languages require more words than English does to express certain concepts such as possession. Take the simple sentence “the teacher’s car” consisting of 3 words. Its Spanish equivalent is “el coche de la profesora” consisting of 5 words. Thus, you can see how what all fits on one page or table of your English document may not do so in its Spanish version.

 

This also applies to languages such as Arabic or Chinese which do not use the Latin alphabet.

Word order varies per language and in Arabic, for example, you would say "eat the boy the apple" rather than “the boy eats the apple”.

 

For more about the languages we are most frequently asked for see the relevant pages.

 

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