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Vietnamese Translation Services — Vietnamese ⇄ German.

Vietnamese translation services provide Vietnamese ⇄ German for authorities and courts, produced by sworn, court-authorised German translators who are Vietnamese native speakers. Work is set in the Latin chữ Quốc ngữ script with every tone diacritic correct and clean Unicode encoding, and certified on request for German registry offices and courts. Vietnamese ⇄ English covers international contexts. Prices start from €1.09 per standard line.

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Native Vietnamese specialists · correct tone diacritics & Unicode encoding · certified translations recognised by German authorities

DIN EN ISO 17100registered · Reg. 7U517
Diacritics & encodingset correctly · Unicode-clean
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ConfidentialGDPR-compliant · NDA on request

Short & clear

Certified Vietnamese translations by sworn, native-speaker translators.

Reviewed by specialists · FÜD editorial team · kept current

Vietnamese is written in the Latin alphabet, yet its tone and vowel diacritics carry the meaning — and each syllable is written on its own. Whether it is a birth certificate for a German registry office, a diploma for recognition, a contract with a partner in Ho Chi Minh City, or technical documentation for a plant in Vietnam: the work is done by native Vietnamese specialists with a proven field — into standard Vietnamese, with every accent in place.

We work in both directions and both pairings. Vietnamese ⇄ German is what German authorities, courts and local partners need — including certified translations and passport-exact handling of tone marks and name order. Vietnamese ⇄ English covers international life in Germany: applications, employer paperwork, contracts and documentation that circulate in English.

Who it's for

Living in Germany, thinking in more than one language.

Most people who search for this in English are already fluent Vietnamese speakers dealing with a German system — or internationals who use English as the working language. Both are covered.

Vietnamese → German, for the authorities

Birth, marriage and name-change certificates, diplomas and police records for a registry office (Standesamt), the immigration office or recognition of qualifications. They need a certified German translation with the tone marks kept and the name mapped exactly as in your passport.

Vietnamese ⇄ English, for international life

Job applications, employment contracts, references and company documents that your employer, university or a partner abroad expects in English rather than German. Same specialists, same care with the diacritics and terminology.

German → Vietnamese, for home

German certificates, contracts, powers of attorney and rulings that have to be presented to authorities, courts or family in Vietnam — in standard Vietnamese, in the form and register that are valid there.

Business across the three

Companies producing or trading with Vietnam, or teams that run in English while the paperwork is German or Vietnamese. We assign a specialist for the direction and field you actually need, not a one-size-fits-all pair.

Language & script

Latin letters, decisive diacritics, every syllable on its own.

Vietnamese is written in the Latin-based chữ Quốc ngữ alphabet — but the tone and vowel marks carry the meaning: ma, má, mà, mả, mã and mạ are six different words (from "ghost" through "cheek" to "rice seedling"). The alphabet has its own letters — đ/Đ, ơ, ư — and stacks diacritics such as ế, ữ, ậ. Each syllable stands alone (Hà Nội, Việt Nam — not "Hanoi", "Vietnam"). A missing mark or the wrong encoding does not change the spelling; it changes the word.

Grammatically Vietnamese does not inflect: no conjugation, no cases. Tense is carried by particles (đã, đang, sẽ) and counting needs classifiers. For official use, an authorised translator issues a certified translation; whether a legalisation is also needed for use abroad is something we check in advance — it is issued by the competent authority, not by the translation agency.

Quality you only notice at the receiving end

What only a native Vietnamese specialist catches.

Because Vietnamese looks Latin, it seems deceptively easy — and that is the trap: the meaning sits in the marks above and below the letters, the name order is reversed, and the grammar has no inflection. These pitfalls separate a native professional translation from one passed through. Each is specific to Vietnamese and demonstrable.

Typical pitfalls in Vietnamese translation and how a specialist resolves them
PitfallWhy it goes wrongHow the FÜD solves it
Tone diacritics dropped or set wrongThe tone marks decide the word: ma (ghost), má (cheek), mà (but), mả (grave), mã (horse/code), mạ (rice seedling). A missing mark turns one word into another — on a certificate, a different name.Native speakers set every tone and vowel mark correctly and translate the meaning, not the diacritic-free string of letters.
Encoding destroys charactersVietnamese stacks diacritics (ế, ữ, ậ) and has special letters (đ/Đ, ơ, ư). Old encodings (VNI, TCVN) or mixed Unicode forms produce question marks, boxes or shifted accents — the file becomes unusable.We work throughout in Unicode (NFC), verify the normalisation and confirm the correct rendering of đ/Đ and stacked diacritics in the finished PDF.
Name order reversed in form fieldsVietnamese puts the family name first and the given name last (Nguyễn Văn An → family name Nguyễn, given name An). Forced into German "first name / surname" fields, the person officially becomes someone else.We map family, middle and given names to the target fields exactly as in the passport and document the mapping where there is any doubt.
Syllables joined or split wronglyEach syllable is written separately (Hà Nội, Việt Nam). Joined up on a German pattern, or "anglicised", place and personal names diverge from the official spelling.We keep the syllable-by-syllable writing and the official form of place and personal names exactly.
Northern / southern variety not fixedNorthern (Hanoi) and southern (Saigon) vocabulary differ in everyday terms; a variety chosen for the wrong audience reads as foreign or ambiguous.For official texts we use the supra-regional standard; where audience matters, we fix northern or southern in advance and keep it consistent.
Grammar "translated" 1:1Vietnamese does not inflect: no verb conjugation, no cases. Tense comes from particles (đã, đang, sẽ) and quantities need classifiers. Carry German forms over one-to-one and you produce wrong or unnatural sentences.Native speakers build tense, number and reference through particles, word order and the right classifiers — idiomatic, not literal.
Register missed (Hán-Việt vs. native)For formal, legal and technical terms Vietnamese uses Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Hán-Việt); everyday speech uses native words. The wrong layer on a certificate sounds casual or ambiguous.Professional translators choose the right word layer for the text type and lock the terminology through a maintained term base.

Why "it looks Latin" is misleading here

None of these is a simple spelling slip — most survive any spell-check. They arise where the meaning sits in the tone marks, the name order is reversed, and the grammar works without inflection, and they only surface at the receiving end: the registry office, the Vietnamese notary, the recognition body. That is exactly where native professional translation earns its place.

In Vietnamese a missing accent is not a typo, but a different word.

So: native speakers with a field, correct tone marks, clean Unicode encoding, and passport-exact name order.

Certification & recognition

"công chứng", "authorised", "certified" — what counts where.

Reviewed by specialists · FÜD editorial team · kept current

For submission to German authorities and courts, a court-authorised translator (in German, ermächtigter Übersetzer, publicly authorised under German state law) produces a certified translation with stamp, signature and certification note — recognised nationwide. In Vietnam the equivalent runs differently: a translation is notarised (công chứng) by a registered translator at a notary office or the provincial Department of Justice (Sở Tư pháp), rather than issued by a court-appointed sworn translator.

So a German authorised translator is not automatically admitted in Vietnam, and vice versa. We clarify before the project which country the document is for, and set the form valid there — following FÜD's documented quality process; where the service is delivered under DIN EN ISO 17100, the required second-person revision is included. Note that Vietnam is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention: documents for use in Vietnam are usually legalised through consular legalisation rather than an apostille. Whichever applies, the apostille or legalisation is issued by the competent authority — the FÜD does not issue apostilles.

Use cases

Vietnamese to German translation: three typical cases from practice.

Diacritics, target country and name order decide the register, terminology and form of certification. Three common jobs — from the starting point to the result.

Registry office & family

Birth & marriage certificate Vietnamese → German

Starting point
For a marriage or naturalisation, a Vietnamese civil-status certificate is needed in German — with the name in full diacritics and the family name first.
Process
An authorised translator renders the certificate, keeps every tone mark, maps the name parts to the German fields exactly as in the passport, and translates seals and notes with it.
Result
A certified translation the registry office accepts, its name spelling identical to the ID — no follow-up query.

Careers in English

Diploma & CV Vietnamese → English

Starting point
A professional from Vietnam applies to an international employer or programme in Germany that works in English, and needs a diploma, references and CV rendered accurately.
Process
Degrees, subjects and titles stay in the original with an explanatory equivalent; tone marks and name order are kept; terminology is handled by a specialist in the field.
Result
Documents an English-speaking employer can place correctly — without misrepresenting a foreign qualification.

Technology & export

Manual & contract German → Vietnamese

Starting point
A manufacturer with production in Vietnam needs operating instructions, safety notices and a supply contract in Vietnamese — complete, terminologically consistent and print-ready.
Process
Technical and legal specialists render the documentation and the contract in the right register (Hán-Việt terms where formal), lock the terminology and deliver the layout with correctly set diacritics and clean Unicode.
Result
A print-ready Vietnamese version — no encoding errors, no rework in the typesetting.

Quote & price

What does a Vietnamese translation cost?

We review volume, field, language direction and encoding and name a binding fixed price. Standard certificates are usually a flat fee per document; longer texts are priced per standard line — certification on request, advance PDF and postal delivery included.

Binding fixed price
from € 1.09 / standard linestandard certificates at a flat fee per document
Price up front · no unannounced extra costs
Native Vietnamese professional translation✓included
Correct diacritics, Unicode-clean encoding & name order✓included
Certification by an authorised translator on request✓included
Advance PDF & postal delivery of the original✓included
Quality management & final check✓included

Vietnamese is priced in language Group 3, from € 1.09 per standard line (55 characters incl. spaces); we name the exact amount after a brief review. How the price is made up →

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Vietnamese documents & texts

Certified Vietnamese document translation.

We translate Vietnamese – German and Vietnamese – English – from certified records to specialist texts. Commonly requested from Vietnamese: Giấy khai sinh (birth certificate), Giấy chứng nhận kết hôn (marriage certificate), Phiếu lý lịch tư pháp (police clearance certificate), Bằng tốt nghiệp (diploma), Giấy phép lái xe (driving licence).

Certificates & personal records

Law & business

Technology, web & IT

Medicine & marketing

FAQ

Vietnamese translation – frequently asked questions.

Do you translate both Vietnamese to German and Vietnamese to English?

Yes. Vietnamese ⇄ German is the usual pairing for German authorities, courts and business partners; Vietnamese ⇄ English covers international contexts – applications, contracts and documentation exchanged in English. A native-speaker specialist is assigned to each direction.

Is Vietnamese the same as Chinese?

No. Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language written in the Latin chữ Quốc ngữ alphabet, not in Chinese characters. It borrows a large layer of Sino-Vietnamese (Hán-Việt) vocabulary for formal and legal terms, but its script, grammar and tone system are its own. We translate exclusively into standard Vietnamese.

How are Vietnamese names written for a German registry office?

Vietnamese puts the family name first and the given name last (e.g. Nguyễn Văn An). We keep every tone and vowel diacritic exactly as in the passport and map family, middle and given names to the correct German form fields, so the person stays officially the same and the document is accepted without a query.

Can you provide a certified Vietnamese translation recognised in Germany?

Yes. For certificates, diplomas and official documents an authorised translator (ermächtigter Übersetzer, authorised by a German court under state law) issues a certified translation with a certification note, recognised by German authorities and courts nationwide.

Does a German authorised translator also count in Vietnam?

Not automatically. Vietnam recognises notarised translations (công chứng) produced by registered translators and certified at a notary office or the provincial Department of Justice (Sở Tư pháp). Because Vietnam is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention, documents for use in Vietnam are usually legalised through consular legalisation rather than an apostille. We clarify in advance which country the document is for and apply the form valid there. The legalisation is issued by the competent authority, not by the FÜD.

What does a Vietnamese translation cost?

The price depends on volume, field, direction and deadline. After a brief review we name a binding fixed price; standard certificates are usually a flat fee per document, from € 1.09 per standard line.
Our birth certificate and diplomas were accepted by the authority without a query — the names carried every accent exactly as in the passport, and the order was right. In an earlier version the Vietnamese characters had turned into boxes.
★★★★★

T. Phạm · naturalisation, Berlin

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Work with us

Already a native Vietnamese speaker? Become an authorised translator.

Our Vietnamese translations are produced by native-speaker specialists — the reason German authorities, universities and courts accept them without queries. Beyond the language itself, that rests on German at C2 level, a specialist field the translator can defend, and — for certified work — court authorisation. If you bring that combination rather than bilingualism alone, we work with Vietnamese translators employed and freelance, and the way in is also open through an internship.

The path

German to C2, plus a field

Native Vietnamese is your starting capital; the market rewards what you build on top. German at C2 — the level at which you read a German ruling or medical report without hesitation — is the real gate, because certified work means rendering official German with precision, not just understanding it. Add a field you can defend (law, medicine, technology, finance) and the terminology that comes with it. That combination, not language alone, is what a registry office or a Vietnamese notary actually relies on.

Why it holds up

Authorisation, and the expertise behind it

For certified translations you apply to the competent Regional Court (Landgericht) to be authorised under state law. And Vietnamese is exacting, specialist work: dense tone and vowel diacritics, special letters like đ, ơ, ư, reversed name order and northern/southern variants that have to be right the first time. Careful human work here is not nostalgia — it is what the receiving authority requires.

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