Translate Word Document from German to French
Your Word document comes back as a .docx in French, with its styles, tables and images untouched.
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What to expect
Your Word document comes back as a .docx in French, with its styles, tables and images untouched.
Scroll through once to check page breaks and table cells where the French text runs longer.
Translating from German
German puts verbs at the end of subordinate clauses and builds long compound nouns, so long sentences are often split and compounds become several words in translation. Check key terminology.
Decimal comma with a point as thousands separator (1.234,5); Switzerland often uses an apostrophe (1'234.5). Dates are day first (14.10.2026).
Swiss Standard German writes ss instead of ß. Austrian German has some vocabulary of its own.
Writing in French
In France, a space goes before : ; ! and ?, and quotations use « guillemets ». Canadian French follows slightly different typographic conventions.
French distinguishes informal tu from formal vous. Business documents use vous.
French in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada shares the same grammar but differs in some vocabulary; Quebec French in particular has its own terms.
How it works
- Drop your Word document with the source on German or Auto-detect.
- Check the page count and credit cost, then press Translate.
- Download the French 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 German to French?
A credit covers up to 500 words of the original German 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 French Word document keep its layout?
format-pages.json layout.summary for this format
Can I translate from French to German too?
Yes. Swap the languages with the arrows next to the language pickers. All 60 languages work in both directions.