Languages

Translating English into Dutch

Set source_lang to EN and target_lang to NL; the response comes back in Dutch. Below: what is particular about this pair.

Start with free credit Dutch to English

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

EN → NL

English

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

Dutch

Elk scherm zou moeten lezen alsof het voor jou is geschreven.

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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.

Dutch

Dutch compounds nouns like German but keeps a simpler case system, and it runs roughly ten to twenty per cent longer than English in running text.

Written in Latin · West Germanic family

The digraph ij is a single letter for capitalisation: IJsland, not Ijsland. Title-casing routines get this wrong by default.

Formality for this pair

U is formal and je informal; Dutch consumer brands often deliberately use je where German brands would use Sie.

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": "EN",
        "target_lang": "NL"
      }'

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