How to use English to Arabic Translation
- The direction is set to English to Arabic. Press the swap button to translate Arabic to English instead.
- Type or paste the English, then press Translate. The first time, the translator downloads once (about 30 MB) and stays in your browser.
- The sentences are translated in order with a count and the time left; Stop keeps the ones already done.
- Copy the Arabic, save it as .txt or share it. A sentence whose numbers changed is marked so you can check it.
Why use English to Arabic Translation
- Modern Standard Arabic
- The output is the written Arabic of notices, forms and news, read across the Gulf, the Levant and North Africa.
- Both directions
- English to Arabic and Arabic to English share this page: the swap button turns the translation into the next text to translate.
- Figures protected
- Amounts, dates, times, emails, links and phone numbers are set aside before translation and put back as typed; a sentence whose digits still changed is marked.
- On your device
- Mozilla's open-source English–Arabic model runs in your browser; a tenancy contract or a salary letter never leaves your phone or computer.
- Checked on real sentences
- On everyday English sentences we wrote and checked (messages, notices, job adverts, form lines), 94 in 100 kept their meaning in Arabic.
About this tool
This English to Arabic translator uses Mozilla's English–Arabic model from Firefox Translations, downloaded once to your browser and run there. Before offering it we measured it two ways: on a public test set of news sentences, and on a set of our own everyday sentences of the kind people in the Gulf actually translate: WhatsApp messages, school and office notices, job adverts, bank and bill lines, and the fields of government and HR forms. In our set, 94 of 100 English sentences kept their meaning in Arabic. The misses were mostly office idioms ("revert", "prepone", "soft copy", "AC" for air conditioning) and very long sentences, which the model shortens.
The Arabic you get is Modern Standard Arabic, not a dialect, so it reads well in a letter, a notice or a form but will sound formal in a chat. Going the other way, the page knows a few hundred common Gulf words and swaps them for their standard equivalents before translating Arabic into English, which made a clear difference on Gulf messages in our test. Figures are protected both ways: amounts such as 1,250.50 ريال, dates, times, links and phone numbers are kept as written, and a sentence whose digits came back different is marked for you to check. For contracts, medical reports and anything official, have the result read by someone who knows both languages.
Frequently asked questions
Is this English to Arabic translation free and private?
Yes. It is an online tool, but the model runs in your browser after a one-time download of about 30 MB, so nothing is uploaded and there is no sign-up.
Which Arabic does it write?
Modern Standard Arabic, the written form used in notices, forms, news and books across Arabic-speaking countries. It does not write Gulf, Egyptian or Levantine dialect.
How good is it?
On a set of everyday English sentences we wrote and checked by hand, 94 in 100 kept their meaning in Arabic. Office idioms and very long sentences are the usual misses, so read the result before you send it.
Can I translate Arabic to English on this page?
Yes. Press the swap button, or choose Arabic under From. Common Gulf words are turned into standard Arabic first, which helps with messages.
Are amounts and dates safe?
They are set aside before translation and put back exactly as you typed them. If the model still changed a digit, the page marks that sentence so you can check it.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, in Safari or Chrome on an iPhone or Android phone, with no app. The translator needs about half a gigabyte of memory while it runs, so on a phone with little memory a very long text may fail; translate it in parts then.
Built and maintained by Saad Naeem
AI engineer, Doha · Updated