Languages

Translating Dutch into American English

Set source_lang to NL 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 Dutch

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

NL → EN-US

Dutch

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

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.

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.

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

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