German to English book translation
AI translation, checked passage by passage. Upload your book — epub, mobi, fb2, docx, txt or pdf — and see the exact price and a free translated sample of your own book before you pay anything. Every passage is translated, then read again against your original, and translated again wherever that check finds a problem.
Your translation comes back as an epub, the most stable format. Word, Kindle and PDF are available at download.
From a classic, translated by this pipeline
The opening of Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka, translated German → English by the same pipeline that will translate your book. Nobody polished this by hand.
German original
Our English translation
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er lag auf seinem panzerartig harten Rücken und sah, wenn er den Kopf ein wenig hob, seinen gewölbten, braunen, von bogenförmigen Versteifungen geteilten Bauch, auf dessen Höhe sich die Bettdecke, zum gänzlichen Niedergleiten bereit, kaum noch erhalten konnte. Seine vielen, im Vergleich zu seinem sonstigen Umfang kläglich dünnen Beine flimmerten ihm hilflos vor den Augen.
When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. He lay on his armour-like hard back and saw, as he lifted his head a little, his brown, arched belly, divided by stiffened sections, on top of which the bedcover, about to slide off completely, could barely maintain itself. His many legs, pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, flickered helplessly before his eyes.
What a faithful English edition must get right
German long words become English phrases, and each one that repeats must become the same phrase every time. That is what a book-wide glossary is for.
German quotation marks („so“ or »so«) become English quotation marks, in one style used everywhere.
Long German sentences stay long in English. Faithful means keeping the author's sentence structure, not making it simpler.
Before translation starts, we build a translator's brief from your whole book: names, terms, tone, typography. You read it and can change it. The brief then guides every chapter. Each passage is read again, independently, against your original, and translated again where that check finds a problem. The finished book gets one whole-book read for continuity. Every change goes into your quality report.
What it costs
A normal 80,000-word novel from German to English costs about $11.99 (Standard) or $22.99 (Premium). Your exact price is counted from your own book — we open it and count every word before quoting — and you see that price, and the free sample, before you pay anything. Prices for other book sizes.
Questions
How much does it cost to translate a book from German to English?
From $6.99; a typical 80,000-word novel is about $11.99 on Standard. The exact price is computed from your actual book and shown before you pay — never after.Can I see the quality before paying?
Yes — an excerpt from the middle of your own book, translated and reviewed free, with a report of what the review changed. You judge on your book, not a marketing demo.What formats do you take, and what do I get back?
epub, mobi, azw, azw3, fb2, txt, docx or pdf in; a finished epub back, with Word, Kindle and PDF conversions on the download page. Layout, images and formatting are preserved.How is the translation checked?
Every passage is translated following a book-specific translator's brief, then independently re-read against your original; whatever that check flags is re-translated and checked again. The finished book then gets one whole-book read for continuity. Every change becomes your quality report.British or American English?
Your choice. Spelling and punctuation style are written in the translator's brief that you read before translation starts.What happens to my book files?
Never used for AI training, never published, auto-deleted after 30 days by a storage lifecycle policy.Also: English to German · English to Russian · English to Spanish · English to French · English to Portuguese · English to Romanian · English to Chinese (Simplified) · English to Japanese · English to Italian · English to Polish · English to Ukrainian — every language we translate, or pick any pair on the home page.