Need a sentence, an email or a whole paragraph in another language? This free online translator turns text between more than 60 languages in a couple of seconds — no account, no download, nothing to install. It is powered by MyMemory, the world’s largest database of sentences translated by real people, which is why everyday phrases, greetings and common expressions come out sounding natural instead of robotic. Pick the language you are writing in, pick the language you need, type or paste your text and press Translate. Long texts are split into pieces automatically, so a full page is no problem.
How to use this translator
Type or paste your text into the box — up to 5,000 characters at a time. Choose the source language on the left and the target language on the right; the ⇄ button swaps them and moves the last translation into the box, which is handy for translating a reply back. Press Translate and read the result in the card below, where a copy button saves you selecting it by hand. If your text is longer than one request allows, the tool quietly translates it part by part and joins the pieces together.
What machine translation does well — and where it struggles
This translator is at its best with the language of daily life: emails, messages, travel phrases, product descriptions, homework sentences and the gist of a foreign web page. Because MyMemory matches your text against millions of human-translated sentences, common expressions and idioms often come back in their natural local form rather than word-for-word. Where it earns an honest warning is specialist text: legal contracts, medical wording, poetry and jokes that depend on wordplay can all come out flat or subtly wrong. For anything that will be signed, published or graded, treat the output as a fast first draft and have a fluent speaker check it.
The free allowance, explained honestly
The service behind this tool is free because it is shared. Every visitor gets a daily allowance of translated words, and the allowance belongs to your internet connection — not to an account here, since there is none. Most people never see the limit. If you translate very large volumes in one day, the tool may tell you the allowance is used up; it resets the next day, and shorter texts often still go through later the same day. Nothing you type is stored on this site: your text travels directly from your browser to the translation service and back.
Tips for a better translation
Write in complete sentences with normal punctuation — the engine uses sentence boundaries to understand you. Keep the source text simple and avoid slang the other language cannot mirror. For names of people, companies and places, check the result keeps them unchanged. If a sentence comes out oddly, try shortening it or swapping a rare word for a common one and translate again; small changes in the input often fix the output. Translating into a language you partly know? Read the result back through the swap button into your own language to spot meaning that drifted.
Which language pairs are strongest?
Quality follows the size of the human translation memory behind each pair. Translations between English and the major European languages — Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese — draw on enormous collections of professionally translated text, including European Union documents, and are consistently the most reliable. Major world languages such as Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Hindi are close behind. For smaller languages the database is thinner, so results lean more on word-for-word rendering: the gist will be right, but grammar and word choice deserve a second look, and short, clear sentences help the engine most exactly where it is weakest.
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