Languages

Translating Greek into American English

Set source_lang to EL and target_lang to EN-US; the response comes back in American English. Below: what is particular about this pair.

Start with free credit American English to Greek

  • Formality Not applicable
  • Script Latin
  • Extra volume €8.00 per million characters and up

EL → EN-US

Greek

Κάθε οθόνη θα πρέπει να διαβάζεται σαν να είχε γραφτεί για εσάς.

American English

Every screen should read as if it had been written for you.

Sample produced by the Language API Engine and cached — nobody edited it by hand.

Greek

Greek keeps four cases and a rich verb morphology, and it is written in its own alphabet, which affects fonts, sorting and any regular expression written for Latin letters.

Written in Greek · Hellenic family

The final sigma ς differs from the medial σ; naive uppercasing and lowercasing round-trips corrupt the word.

American English

English is the shortest of the supported languages in almost every measurement, which is why interfaces designed in English tend to break when translated into anything else.

Written in Latin · West Germanic family

British and American spelling, date order and vocabulary differ enough to matter; choose EN-GB or EN-US explicitly instead of bare EN.

Formality for this pair

American English does not distinguish formal from informal address, so the formality parameter is accepted but has no effect.

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": "EL",
        "target_lang": "EN-US"
      }'

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