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Text Translation Services.

Text translation for documents, correspondence and specialist texts — handled by native-speaker specialists, not by a raw machine: terminologically correct, confidential and in over 70 languages. Binding fixed price, certified for German authorities on request.

  • Any text typeweb, letter, report
  • Specialist editingfour-eyes principle
  • Terminologyconsistent
  • 4.6 · Trustpilot
Customer serviceText types 0800 3333-3433

Native-speaker specialists, not raw machine output · from a cover letter to a specialist text · scope costed clearly by the standard line · on request entirely without AI and machine translation

DIN EN ISO 17100registered · Reg. 7U517
over 70 languagesnative-speaker specialists
Price up frontbinding fixed price
ConfidentialGDPR-compliant · NDA on request

In short

When professional text translation earns its place.

Reviewed by specialists · FÜD editorial team · kept current

A text works only when it reads naturally in the target language and is right on the facts. Free machines give you a sense of the content, but not a reliable, terminologically correct version — least of all for contracts, specialist texts or official documents. At the FÜD, native-speaker specialists do the translating, on request entirely without machine translation and AI.

Tell us what the text is for and we assign the right specialist. If it is a particular document, this page routes you straight to the right service: legal, technical, medical, academic — or a certified translation for certificates and records. This is the everyday-text entry point; where a text needs certification or a specialist field, we hand it on rather than compromise.

Choose the text type

Which text needs which translator?

Have a text and unsure who should translate it? This overview takes you to the right specialist page in one step — or simply tell us the text type and purpose and we route it for you.

Text types, what matters for each, and the right FÜD service page
Text typeWhat mattersThe right FÜD page
Contract, GTC, NDALaw of the target country, clause-exact terminology, which language version governsLegal translation →
Certificate (birth, marriage, ID)Certification by a sworn, court-authorised translator; acceptance by the authorityCertified translation →
Diploma, transcriptGrading system explained, recognition in the target country, usually certifiedCertified translation →
Technical documentation, manualConsistent terminology, standards references, safety-critical precisionTechnical translation →
Marketing, advertising copyTranscreation — effect and tone in the target market, not a literal renderingWebsite & marketing →
Medical textVerified terminology, MDR/regulatory reference, patient safetyMedical translation →
Academic paper, thesisSubject register, correct citation style, publication-ready qualityResearch translation →
Website, online shopLocalisation rather than translation — hreflang, format, search intent in the marketWebsite localisation →

Not sure which applies?

Many jobs mix text types — a cover letter with a certificate attached, a report with a contract annex. Tell us the purpose and the audience; we assign each component to the right service and bring it all together in one binding fixed price.

Kinds of translation

Briefly: which service your text needs.

“Translate a text” can mean several things. This overview sorts the common services — so you can pick the right one, or simply tell us the purpose and the audience.

Specialised translation

Translation by a native-speaker specialist in the field, terminology checked — the standard for contracts, technology or medicine. See specialised translation.

Certified translation

Provided with a certification note by a sworn, court-authorised translator and thereby valid for official submission — for certificates and records. More on this.

Post-editing (MTPE)

A machine draft is checked by a professional translator and brought up to a reliable standard — quicker where a draft already exists and the risk profile allows it.

Proofreading & revision

Checking and polishing an existing translation for style, grammar and consistency. See proofreading.

Transcreation

Advertising copy rewritten rather than rendered word for word, so tone and effect land in the target market. See website & marketing.

Localisation

Adapting whole websites or software to language, format and market — including hreflang and CMS integration. See website localisation.

A machine is enough to understand a text — not to rely on it.

So: native-speaker specialists, correct terminology and confidentiality throughout.

Quality you only notice at the receiving end

What a specialist catches that a machine misses.

A machine renders words; it does not carry responsibility for the result. The gaps below are where a raw automatic translation quietly goes wrong — and each is specific and demonstrable, not a matter of taste.

Typical pitfalls of raw machine translation and how a specialist resolves them
PitfallWhy it goes wrongHow the FÜD solves it
Fluent but wrongA machine produces confident, well-formed sentences even when it has misread the source — the error is invisible until the reader acts on it.A native-speaker specialist translates for meaning and verifies against the source, so a smooth sentence is also a correct one.
Terminology drift across filesRun through a machine, the same term comes out three different ways across a set of documents; a contract and its annex stop matching.A glossary and translation memory hold terminology steady across every file in the job, so wording stays consistent.
Register and toneAn official letter reads as casual, or a warm personal note turns stiff — a machine has no sense of who the text is for.The specialist sets the register to the purpose — formal for an authority, natural for correspondence — as a native writer would.
False friends and ambiguityLook-alike words and words with two meanings are resolved by surface form, and the sentence flips to the opposite sense.Ambiguity is resolved from context by someone who knows the field, not by the most probable token.
Names, numbers, dates, formattingDecimal points, thousands separators, date order and accented names are silently changed, and a figure or a name is then misread.Number, date and name conventions are set to the target language, and names are matched exactly to the identity document.
ConfidentialityPasting a text into a free tool can send confidential content to a third party and train a model on it — a breach for contracts and records.Texts are processed under the GDPR, only for the agreed purpose; on request entirely without AI and machine translation, with an NDA where needed.

Why the free draft is not the finished text

None of these is a simple typo — most survive any spell-check, and a machine draft looks finished precisely because it reads smoothly. They only surface at the receiving end: the client, the authority, the court. That is exactly where native professional translation earns its place — and, for anything official, where a certified translation becomes necessary.

What we translate

From a private letter to a specialist report.

Almost any text, in over 70 languages — from everyday correspondence to certified records and specialist documents. Where a text is official or field-specific, we route it to the right service; where it simply needs to read well in another language, a native-speaker specialist handles it.

Everyday & private

  • Letter & correspondence
  • Application & cover letter
  • CV & references
  • Email & personal notes
  • Article & blog post
  • General business text

Official & certified

Technical, web & IT

Medicine & academia

From practice

Text translation: three typical jobs.

How the same route — review, assignment, fixed price — works for very different texts. From the starting point to the result.

Business & commerce

General business text into English

Starting point
A company has a proposal, a report and a presentation translated into English for a client — factually correct and in the company's own tone.
Process
The documents are reviewed, a business specialist is assigned, and terminology is kept uniform across every file; on request entirely without machine translation and AI.
Result
Print- and send-ready versions at the fixed price named in advance — and, for ongoing needs, a framework agreement.

Private & correspondence

Personal letter & emails

Starting point
A private client needs a personal letter and accompanying emails translated — confidential, and sounding natural rather than machine-made.
Process
A native speaker carries the tone and the intent across for sense, not word for word; the work is handled strictly confidentially under the GDPR.
Result
A letter that lands with the reader as it was meant — without the tell-tale flatness of a machine translation.

Mixed document

Application with a certificate

Starting point
An application bundles a cover letter, a CV and a diploma that the university wants to see certified.
Process
We split the components — letter and CV as a professional translation, the diploma as a certified version by a sworn, court-authorised translator.
Result
A coherent package, each component in the correct form — brought together in one fixed price.

Quote & price

What does a text translation cost?

We review volume, text type, language direction and deadline and name a binding fixed price — no recalculation by lines delivered. Standard certificates are usually a flat fee per document; longer texts are priced per standard line, certification on request.

Binding fixed price
from € 0.89 / standard linestandard certificates at a flat fee per document
Price up front · no unannounced extra costs
Native-speaker professional translation✓included
Terminology & translation memory✓included
Certification by a court-authorised translator on request✓included
Second-pair-of-eyes revision & final check✓included
Confidential handling under the GDPR · NDA on request✓included

As a guide, translations start from € 0.89 per standard line (55 characters incl. spaces); we name the exact amount after a brief review — as a fixed price with no recalculation,. How the price is made up →

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FAQ

Text translation – frequently asked questions.

Why use a professional translator instead of free machine translation?

A machine gives you the gist, but not a reliable, terminologically correct and stylistically consistent version. For contracts, specialist texts and official documents a professional text translation is either advisable or required. At the FÜD, native-speaker specialists do the work — on request entirely without machine translation and AI.

What kinds of text do you translate?

Almost any — from letters, applications and correspondence through contracts and reports to technical, medical and academic specialist texts, and digital content from websites to marketing. We match a native-speaker specialist to the text type and field.

Which languages do you translate into?

over 70 languages and many combinations. We assign a native-speaker specialist by language and field, so the target text reads as if written by a native.

Can you certify the translation for a German authority?

Yes, when an authority requires it. For certificates and records a sworn, court-authorised translator (authorised by a German court under state law) produces a certified translation with a certification note, recognised by German authorities and courts nationwide. Whether an apostille is also needed we check in advance — it is issued by the competent authority, not by the translation agency.

Is my text kept confidential?

Yes. Your texts are processed confidentially and only for the agreed purpose under the GDPR; on request entirely without machine translation and AI, with an NDA where you need one.

What does a text translation cost?

The price depends on volume, text type, language direction and deadline. After a brief review we name a binding fixed price, from € 0.89 per standard line, with no recalculation by lines delivered.
They translated our proposal and its contract annex into English with the terminology matched across both files — and certified the one document the client needed certified. One fixed price, no surprises, and it read like it was written in English.
★★★★★

M. Brandt · operations lead, Munich

Next

Where to go next: services, fields, documents and languages.

Services

Web content translationScientific translationProfessional translationCertified translation

Specialist fields

Tourism translationMedical translatorTechnical translationLegal translation

Documents

Certificate translationBirth certificate translationMarriage certificate translationDivorce certificate translation

Languages

English–German translationPolish to German translationRussian–German translationSlovenian translation

Work with us

A strong translator, tired of racing the machine?

The everyday-text market is where machine output presses hardest — and where it fails most quietly. What still holds up is a native-speaker specialist with a field, sound judgement on register and terminology, and — for official work — a court-authorised sworn translator. We work continually with professional translators, employed or freelance, who deliver the version a client can actually rely on.

The path

A native language, plus a field to defend

Your native language is the starting capital; the market rewards what you build on it. A field you can defend — law, medicine, technology, finance — and its terminology is what turns a fluent draft into a translation a client relies on. That combination, not fluency alone, is what a specialist job actually asks for, and what no free tool can supply.

Why it holds up

Judgement, and work automation can't touch

For certified translations you apply to the competent Regional Court (Landgericht) to be authorised under state law. And even everyday texts reward a specialist's judgement: the right register, terminology that stays consistent, confidentiality, and responsibility for the result. Careful human work here is not nostalgia — it is what the client requires.

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