Czech Translation Services

Software and app text is the most common subject of Czech work at Tomedes, with more than 1 in 3 Czech assignments since January 2024. Interface strings, help files and game text are translated with the length limits and placeholders of the source file kept intact.

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Tomedes provides a signed certificate of accuracy for Czech translations of birth certificates, diplomas, transcripts and immigration documents. For documents going to Czech authorities, check whether the receiving office needs a translator from the Czech Ministry of Justice register, which the Czech Consulate General in Chicago explains.

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Reports, contracts, manuals and product documentation translated into and from Czech. A security company asked for a Czech translation of its quarterly report, and the confidentiality of the file mattered as much as the language.

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Medical reports, consent forms and pharmaceutical documents translated between Czech and English, including medical device texts. Tomedes describes one example in a recent medical translation.

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Residency papers, contracts and family records translated into and from Czech. A Tomedes client needed a Czech to English legal translation after moving to the Czech Republic, and another traced family history through diaries and letters written in Czech.

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Interpreters for meetings, hearings and appointments are arranged on request. Washington State lists Czech among the 41 languages in its court interpreter program (Washington Courts).

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Czech has seven grammatical cases, three genders, free word order and no articles, so a sentence cannot be translated word for word. It also has two registers, Standard Czech for writing and Common Czech for everyday speech (Masaryk University Language Centre), and informal and formal forms of address, so the audience decides the tone.

No. Czech and Slovak are very similar and mutually intelligible, but they are distinct languages with their own standards. A Czech translation is not a Slovak translation, and Tomedes assigns each to a native speaker of the target language.

A popular story says puppet theater saved Czech from extinction. The record is more careful: after 1620, German replaced Czech in official and literary use, but Czech stayed the spoken language of most people and was revived in the 19th century (Masaryk University Language Centre, above).

The Foreign Service Institute places Czech in Category III, about 44 weeks or 1,012 class hours for an English speaker (Department of State). That effort is why professional documents need a native linguist.

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

• Hello (informal), also goodbye: Ahoj
• Good day (formal): Dobrý den
• Good morning: Dobré ráno
• Good evening: Dobrý večer
• Good night: Dobrou noc
• Goodbye (formal): Na shledanou
• Thank you: Děkuji
• Please, you are welcome: Prosím
• Yes, no: Ano, ne
• How are you? Jak se máš? (informal), Jak se máte? (formal)
• I am well: Mám se dobře
• Excuse me: Promiňte
• Do you speak English? Mluvíte anglicky?
• I do not understand: Nerozumím
• How much is it? Kolik to stojí?
• Where is the toilet? Kde je toaleta?
• Help: Pomoc