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Upload a Dutch EPUB and get the first fifteen pages back in English. The recurring problem is the little words — the ones Dutch scatters through a sentence that mean almost nothing individually and change the tone completely.
The first 15 pages of text are sent to our server to be translated. The file itself stays on your device.
maar, toch, even, nou, hoor: Dutch modal particles do not translate, because English does not have them. They adjust how a sentence lands — softening it, hedging it, making it companionable — and a translation that simply drops them produces English that is accurate and oddly cold. One that renders each as a word produces English that is cluttered. The right answer changes with the sentence, which means it has to be a consistent judgement rather than a rule.
Compounds are the other steady work. Dutch joins words English keeps apart, and the same compound has to unpack into the same English phrase every time or a recurring concept quietly becomes three different ones.
Reading the whole book first is what makes both consistent: recurring terms, names, tone and register are fixed before a word is translated.
A DRM-free EPUB. The file stays on your device; only the text of the sample is sent.
Recurring compounds and terms are collected into a guide, so each gets one English equivalent and keeps it.
About 4,500 words as a complete EPUB you can download or read here.
Particles become tone or nothing. There is no English word for toch. The warmth or hedging it carries has to show in how the sentence is phrased, and some of it is simply lost.
u flattens. English has one "you", so where the Dutch marks distance the English has to imply it.
Fifteen pages, not the book. About 4,500 words.
The text is sent to a server and discarded when the job finishes.
They become tone rather than words. A sentence softened by a particle is rendered as a softened English sentence; inserting "right?" or "you know" everywhere would be worse than leaving them out, and both are worse than getting the register right.
Yes — that is the point of reading the entire book before translating anything. Recurring compounds go into a guide, so a concept named once keeps that name for the whole sample instead of being unpacked differently on each appearance.
Yes. Belgian Dutch vocabulary and constructions are read as what they are rather than treated as errors, and reading the whole book first keeps the voice consistent across a long text.
About 4,500 words, roughly fifteen pages, five books a day.
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The app translates the entire book and can show the English beside the Dutch, so the particles the English had to drop are still there in the original.
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