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Upload a Ukrainian EPUB and get the first fifteen pages back in English. The first thing a translation has to get right here is which language it is actually reading — because Ukrainian prose often contains more than one.
The first 15 pages of text are sent to our server to be translated. The file itself stays on your device.
A great deal of Ukrainian writing renders speech as people actually speak it, which in many regions means a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian within the same sentence. That mixture is a characterisation device: it says where someone is from and how they were educated. Read as an error and normalised away, the character loses the thing that identified them.
Names are the other steady work. Ukrainian declines them, including into the vocative when one character addresses another, so the same person appears in several forms — and to something matching strings rather than reading language, those look like several people.
Reading the whole book first is what handles both: the cast, the name forms, the register and the recurring terms go into a guide before a word is translated.
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The cast is mapped across every case form a name takes, so one person keeps one English spelling.
About 4,500 words as a complete EPUB you can download or read here.
Mixed speech loses its marking. Where a character switches between Ukrainian and Russian mid-sentence, English has no way to show it without inventing an accent. The meaning survives; the signal about who is speaking mostly does not.
Ви becomes nothing. English has one "you", so the formal/familiar boundary has to be carried by tone.
Fifteen pages, not the book. About 4,500 words.
The text is sent to a server and discarded when the job finishes.
No. They are related but distinct, with different vocabulary, different letters and different grammar, and the text is read as what it is. Passages of deliberately mixed speech are read as the mixture they are rather than corrected into one language.
Yes. The case forms, including the vocative used when characters address each other, are recorded as belonging to one person before anything is translated — so the English does not acquire a cast member who was never there.
Where they carry meaning. Being addressed by name and patronymic is a specific register, and flattening it to a first name throws away what the scene was doing; where it would only confuse an English reader, the surrounding words carry it instead.
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 Ukrainian, which keeps the original in reach where the English has to flatten something.
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