Professional German translations

We do not deal with reference, education certificates, passports, diplomas in the German. Our sphere expands much beyond:

technical German translations:  technical translations of equipment operation manuals, autocad formatted translations of technical diagrams, etc., technical translations of reference materials to various items of equipment, translation of other types of technical documentation;

legal German translations:  translations of contracts, title certificates, bank documentation, companies’ business plans, different types of agreements and arrangements, search and translation of laws of different countries for the companies extending their business over various regions, translation of court verdicts, arbitration proceedings;

literary German translations: literary translation of books, articles, stories and other types of prose, literary translation of poetry, translation of advertising materials, other texts requiring an artistic and creative approach to be used and any other various matters that could be referred to the literary translations;

medical German translations: translation of medical equipment operation manuals, any type of medical documentation (extracts from case histories, epicrisis, health certificates, examination results, etc.), translation of medical publications, scientific articles in various medical fields, scientific research booklets and protocols, therapeutic drug management instructions, therapeutic drug research and test results;

translations of software and website localisation proceedings from German and into German: translation of help-files, translation and support of multilingual websites, translation of computer games.

Services of German translations in our agency are performed by certified professional translators of German language.

We provide German translations for both enterprises, including state organizations, and for private individuals as well.

Written German translations of all types of documentation, including such areas of expertise as technical literature, translation of software and computer games.

Complete confidentiality of our customers is ensured by signing a non-disclosure agreement by every German translator of our agency.

translation from German into Russian or English – 0.07EUR per source word
translation from English or Russian into German – 0.08EUR per source word.
the cost of translation of German and other language pairs is to be negotiated with the translation bureau manager.
Itemized price list

The Russian translation services agency will quite soon recruit a native German translator (or a group) to translate engineering subjects. See our order page and we will feel honor to help.

SOME FACTS ABOUT GERMAN

German language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is the official language of Germany and Austria and is one of the official languages of Switzerland. Altogether nearly 100 million people speak German as their first language, among them about 77 million in Germany; 8 million in Austria; 4.5 million in Switzerland; 2 million in the United States and Canada; about 2 million in Latin America; and several additional millions throughout Europe, including the Baltic republics, Belarus, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine, and the Balkan states. German is important as a cultural and commercial second language for millions of people in Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe and in North and South America.

High and Low German

There are two principal divisions of the German language: High German, or Hochdeutsch, and Low German, or Plattdeutsch. One of the most striking differences between them is the result of a consonant shift (usually referred to as the second, or High German, sound shift) that took place before the 8th cent. A.D. in certain West Germanic dialects. This sound shift affected the southern areas, which are more elevated and hence referred to as the High German region, whereas it left untouched the Low German prevalent in the lowland regions of the North. In a broader and purely linguistic sense, the term Low German can also be extended to cover all the West Germanic languages in which the second sound shift did not take place, such as Dutch, Frisian, and English.

Distinctive Features

Besides differences in word order, the German language is unlike English in that German makes extensive use of inflectional endings. The verb is inflected to show person, number, tense, and mood; and the subjunctive is frequently used. The declensional scheme has four cases: nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative. There are two ways of declining the adjective, and there are three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. A distinctive feature of German is its extensive use of lengthy compound words. For example, the English “history of antiquity” is translated into German as Altertumswissenschaft; the English “worthy of distinction” is translated as auszeichnungswurdig.

The Gothic or Black Letter form (in German called Fraktur) of the Roman alphabet, which first appeared in Europe around the 12th cent., is now rarely used, although knowledge of Fraktur is needed in order to read many works printed before 1945. The Roman alphabet is now exclusively used in printing. German is the only language in which all nouns are capitalized, common as well as proper. There is a closer relationship between German spelling and pronunciation than there is in English.

History of German

Historically, German falls into three main periods: Old German (c.A.D. 750–c.A.D. 1050); Middle German (c.1050–c.1500); and Modern German (c.1500 to the present). The earliest existing records in German date back to about A.D. 750. In this first period, local dialects were used in writing, and there was no standard language. In the middle period a relatively uniform written language developed in government after the various chancelleries of the Holy Roman Empire began, in the 14th cent., to use a combination of certain dialects of Middle High German in place of the Latin that until then had dominated official writings.

The German of the chancellery of Saxony was adapted by Martin Luther for his translation of the Bible. He chose it because at that time the language of the chancelleries alone stood out in a multitude of dialects as a norm, and Luther thought he could reach many more people through it. The modern period is usually said to begin with the German used by Luther, which became the basis of Modern High German, or modern standard German. The spread of uniformity in written German was also helped by printers, who, like Luther, wanted to attract as many readers as possible.

During the 18th cent. a number of outstanding writers gave modern standard German essentially the form it has today. It is now the language of church and state, education and literature. A corresponding norm for spoken High German, influenced by the written standard, is used in education, the theater, and broadcasting. German dialects that differ substantially from standard German, not only in pronunciation but also in grammar, are found in regions of Germany, E France, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein; Letzeburgesch, an official language of Luxembourg, is a German dialect spoken by about 400,000 people there. Although dialectal differences within both the High German and Low German regions remain, a trend toward uniformity in the direction of the written standard is expected partly as a result of widespread broadcasting, diminishing isolation, and increased socioeconomic mobility.

The German language is spoken in:

Germany
Switzerland
Austria
Luxembourg
Liechtenstein
Italy
Brazil (small German speaking minorities)
Argentina (small German speaking minorities)
U.S. (small German speaking minorities)
Denmark (small German speaking minorities)
Poland (small German speaking minorities)
France (small German speaking minorities in Alsace)
Details of each country's market

Germany. Population: 82.8 Million (1999 est.; CIA).
Gross Domestic Product : US$1.86 trillion (purchasing power parity; 1999 est.); CIA
GDP per capita : US$22,700 (1999 est., CIA)

Switzerland. Population: 7.2 Million, out of which 5.4 Million are in German-speaking Switzerland (1999 est.; CIA)
Gross Domestic Product : US$197 billion (1999 est. - Purchasing Power Parity; CIA)
GDP per capita : US$27,100 (1999 est.; CIA)

Austria Population: 8.1 Million.
Gross Domestic Product: US$190.6 billion (1999 est. - Purchasing Power Parity; CIA)
GDP per capita : US$23,400 (1999 est.; CIA)

Italy. Trentino (a small province adjacent to Austria) contains around a half a million German-speakers.

Belgium. A small province adjacent to German contains a small German-speaking population.

Brazil. There is a small part of Brazil where a high concentration of German-speaking people lives.

Argentina. There is a small part of Brazil where a high concentration of German-speaking people lives.

U.S. There are 1.5 million German-speaking people living in the U.S. (according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 1990 census). Historically, many German-speakers immigrated to the U.S. in previous centuries. Two centuries ago, German was nearly voted as the national language of the U.S. This accounts for such a large population still in the U.S. who claimed to the U.S. Census that they speak German at home.
eBusiness in Germany:

Background: Western Europe's richest and most populous nation, with 82.7 Million people (there is a large Turkish population in Germany: 2.4%). In August of 2000, there were 18 million Germans online.

Economy - overview: Germany possesses the world's third most technologically powerful economy after the US and Japan, but its basic capitalistic economy has started to struggle under the burden of generous social benefits. Structural rigidities - like a high rate of social contributions on wages - have made unemployment a long- term, not just cyclical, problem, while Germany's aging population has pushed social security outlays to exceed contributions from workers. The integration and upgrading of the eastern German economy remains a costly long-term problem. The adoption of a common European currency (the euro, which will be phased in starting in 2002), and the general political and economic integration of Europe will bring major changes to the German economy in the early 21st century.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $1.864 trillion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 1.5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $22,700 (1999 est.)
Econonic composition by sector:
agriculture: 1.2%
industry: 30.4%
services: 68.4% (1999)

Industries: among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages; shipbuilding; textiles

For companies buying from Germany, these are the industries that are most exported: machinery, vehicles, chemicals, metals and manufactures, foodstuffs, and textiles.

For companies wanting to sell to Germany, these are the industries that are most imported into Germany: machinery, vehicles, chemicals, foodstuffs, textiles, metals.

It makes sense to take the total European German-speaking market as a whole, since German is the principal language of Switzerland and Austria (both rich countries as well). That would make the entire German-speaking market 100 million people. As a company establishes itself in this market, it can start to differentiate between these three countries, but to do so at first would simply cost too much. Funds could be put to better use in marketing and getting sales going to start with.

Use of Internet in Germany:
90% of all German businesses are online, and 56% of German companies have their own Website (and another 30% should have one by the middle of 2001). Although the businesses that sell online only realize 0.1% to 10% of their entire turnover, the prognosis is that in 2001 there will be 14% of German businesses that realize 25-50% of their turnover online.

Germany is quite strong in the Internet world... actually, number two position in the world. A newly published research at (http://www.statmarket.com) StatMarket gives Germany the second position in the world, after the U.S. Around 5.56% of all Internet traffic originates in Germany (the U.S. accounting for 55%).

Research company "Consulting Partner" studied 1300 companies in German-speaking Europe last year, and found that one-third of them did not have any defined, clear e-commerce strategy. Another one quarter of these companies did have an e-commerce strategy. 17% of German mid-sized companies did not even have an email address or any plans for eBusiness. It is usually the larger German companies who are more developed in their online strategy than small companies.

On the consumer side, recent research shows that 40% of online Germans bought online last Christmas.

Credit cards are rare in Germany, but most new bank customers are given a debit card (usually Mastercard), which can be used to buy on e-commerce sites. Most B2B purchases are paid for by bank transfers, and checks are not a part of the German banking system (unlike the U.S./U.K. and Southern Europe).

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Professional technical German translations
Professional legal German translation
Professional medical German translation