Translate an English sentence into a chosen target language and explain the grammar reasoning behind each choice, covering Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and French.
A translation app hands back one correct answer and nothing else, which is fine when you need the sentence and useless when you're trying to learn why it's built that way. Why did the verb move. Why did that noun need an article it wouldn't need in English. Why did the tense change even though the English sentence stayed in the same tense throughout. This tool answers those questions every time, instead of leaving you to reverse-engineer the grammar from a bare translated sentence. My sentence is [ENGLISH_SENTENCE]. Target language is [LANGUAGE:select:Italian,German,Portuguese,Russian,Spanish,French]. Formality is [FORMALITY:select:Informal,Formal,Either is fine]. Level is [LEVEL:select:A1 (beginner),A2 (elementary),B1 (intermediate),B2 (upper intermediate),C1 (advanced)]. Translate [ENGLISH_SENTENCE] into [LANGUAGE], matching [FORMALITY] where the language marks a formal and informal register. Directly under the translation, walk through the specific grammar choices that a word-for-word rendering would have gotten wrong: the tense or aspect chosen and why, gender or case agreement applied to nouns and adjectives, pronoun placement if the sentence has an object pronoun, and word order changes forced by the target language's own structure rather than English's. If more than one correct translation exists depending on context or regional variation, give the most standard version first and name the alternative briefly rather than picking one silently. Keep the grammar explanation matched to [LEVEL], a short two-line note at A1 and A2, a fuller breakdown of anything genuinely non-obvious at B1 and above. Close by naming the one grammar decision in this sentence most likely to be gotten wrong by someone translating word by word from English.
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Get Early AccessA translation app gives back one sentence and stops there, which answers what the translation is and nothing about why it's built that way. Why did the tense change. Why did an article show up where English doesn't use one. Why did the verb move to a different spot in the sentence. This tool answers all three every time, instead of leaving the grammar to get reverse-engineered from a bare translated line.
Paste your [ENGLISH_SENTENCE], set [LANGUAGE] to Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, or French, choose [FORMALITY] where the language marks a formal and informal register, and set [LEVEL] so the grammar explanation matches how much detail you actually need. Every translation comes with a walkthrough of tense, agreement, pronoun placement, and word order choices, not just the finished sentence.
Spanish and French already have their own dedicated translation generators in this library, tuned specifically to those two languages. This tool is the primary translation option for Italian, German, Portuguese, and Russian, and a fast alternative for Spanish or French when you don't need the language-specific depth. Try a set in the Dock Editor to keep your sentences next to your other notes.
Fill in [ENGLISH_SENTENCE] with the exact sentence you want translated.
Set [LANGUAGE] to Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, or French.
Choose [FORMALITY] for informal, formal, or either, in languages that mark that distinction.
Choose [LEVEL] and check the explanation under the translation for the specific choices a word-for-word version would have missed.
Get a translation and a grammar breakdown for a language without a dedicated translation generator elsewhere in this library.
Translate your own sentence first, then run it here to see where your version diverged from the standard one and why.
See tense, gender agreement, and word order changes explained together in the context of one real sentence, instead of studying each rule in isolation.
Run the same sentence twice with [FORMALITY] switched to see exactly what changes between the two versions.
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