Croatian Translation Services

Technical documents are the most common tagged subject of Croatian work at Tomedes since January 2024, followed by medical device and marketing texts. Tomedes has translated English to Croatian medical documents, and a client used the service for business email translation.

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Tomedes provides a signed certificate of accuracy for Croatian translations of birth certificates, diplomas and civil records. For documents going to Croatia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says foreign public documents must be legalized and translated into Croatian (Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), so check whether the receiving office needs a court-appointed translator in Croatia.

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Interface strings, help text and store listings translated into and from Croatian. Tomedes translated an app from Croatian into English for its developer, described in a recent translation.

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Interpreters for hearings, immigration interviews and appointments are arranged on request, and Tomedes provided a two-hour legal interpretation for a Croatian citizenship application in 2024. Maryland certifies court interpreters in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (Maryland Courts), and Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago lists Bosnian and Croatian among its interpreter languages (Lurie Children’s Hospital).

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Croatian is a South Slavic language and is closest to Serbian and Bosnian. Standard Croatian is Ijekavian and written only in the Latin alphabet, and it often keeps native Slavic words where Serbian borrows, such as listopad for October against oktobar. A Serbian translation delivered to a Croatian audience is a quality risk, which is why Tomedes assigns Croatian speakers. See also Tomedes on marketing in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian.

Croatian has three dialect groups, Kajkavian around Zagreb, Čakavian on the coast and islands, and Štokavian, the base of the standard language. Tell Tomedes if your text is meant for a regional audience.

Croatian uses Gaj’s Latin alphabet, with č, ć, đ, š and ž and the digraph letters dž, lj and nj (Croatian Encyclopedia). Files and fonts must keep these letters, and the digraphs count as single letters for sorting.

Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski gave the first speech in Croatian in the Sabor on 2 May 1843 and asked for it to be the language of schools and offices (Croatian Encyclopedia). The Sabor replaced Latin with Croatian in 1847 (Croatian Parliament).

Croatian has informal and formal forms, so the right phrase depends on who is being addressed. Here are some of the most commonly translated Croatian words and phrases (see the Croatian Language Portal).

• Hello (informal): Bok
• Good day: Dobar dan
• Good morning: Dobro jutro
• Good evening: Dobra večer
• Goodbye: Doviđenja
• Thank you: Hvala
• Please, you are welcome: Molim
• Yes, no: Da, ne
• How are you? Kako si? (informal), Kako ste? (formal)
• Excuse me, sorry: Oprostite, Žao mi je
• Do you speak English? Govorite li engleski?
• I do not understand: Ne razumijem
• How much is it? Koliko je to?
• I love you: Volim te
• Call the police: Pozovite policiju