Translate Word Document from French to German
Your Word document comes back as a .docx in German, with its styles, tables and images untouched.
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What to expect
Your Word document comes back as a .docx in German, with its styles, tables and images untouched.
Scroll through once to check page breaks and table cells where the German text runs longer.
Translating from French
French marks gender on nouns and adjectives (directrice, directeur) while English often doesn't, so some details of the original can disappear in translation. Add them back where they matter.
Decimal comma with a space as thousands separator (1 234,5). Dates are written day first (14/10/2026).
French in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada shares the same grammar but differs in some vocabulary; Quebec French in particular has its own terms.
Writing in German
All nouns are capitalised, and long compound words (Datenschutzerklärung) can be hard to fit into narrow table cells, buttons and slide boxes.
German distinguishes informal du from formal Sie. Business and official documents use Sie, although some brands address customers with du.
Swiss Standard German writes ss instead of ß. Austrian German has some vocabulary of its own.
How it works
- Drop your Word document with the source on French or Auto-detect.
- Check the page count and credit cost, then press Translate.
- Download the German file. Signed-in users also find it in History for 7 days.
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Not a certified translation
Machine translation, not a certified or sworn translation. If your document goes to an authority, check what it requires first.
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Questions
How much does it cost to translate a Word document from French to German?
A credit covers up to 500 words of the original French text, and the exact cost is shown before you confirm. You get 100 free pages without an account and 500 more when you sign up.
Will the German Word document keep its layout?
format-pages.json layout.summary for this format
Can I translate from German to French too?
Yes. Swap the languages with the arrows next to the language pickers. All 60 languages work in both directions.