Languages

Translating German into French

Set source_lang to DE and target_lang to FR; the response comes back in French. Below: what is particular about this pair.

Start with free credit French to German

  • Formality Available
  • Script Latin
  • Extra volume €8.00 per million characters and up

DE → FR

German

Jeder Bildschirm sollte sich so lesen, als wäre er für dich geschrieben worden.

French

Chaque écran devrait se lire comme s'il avait été écrit pour vous.

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German

German compounds nouns into single words and puts finite verbs at the end of subordinate clauses, so translated strings run roughly ten to thirty-five per cent longer than the English source.

Written in Latin · West Germanic family

Compound nouns overflow narrow buttons and table headers; test the German build at your smallest breakpoint before release.

French

French runs fifteen to twenty per cent longer than English and requires non-breaking spaces before high punctuation, which is a typographic rule and not a preference.

Written in Latin · Romance family

The space before ; : ! ? must be a narrow no-break space; a plain space causes the punctuation to wrap onto the next line.

Formality for this pair

Vous and tu are distinct registers; French commercial writing uses vous almost universally.

The formality parameter, explained

Copy-ready request

curl -X POST https://api.langapi.xyz/v1/translate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer la_live_xxxxxxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "text": ["…"],
        "source_lang": "DE",
        "target_lang": "FR"
      }'

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