Languages
Translate Dutch to American English
Send source_lang NL and target_lang EN-US and the API returns American English text. Here is what makes this pair different from the others.
Dutch
Een vertaling moet lezen alsof een persoon het heeft geschreven.
American English
A translation should read as if a person wrote it.
Example output produced by the vizvuz Engine and cached — not a hand-written translation.
Dutch
Dutch compounds nouns like German but keeps a simpler case system, and it runs roughly ten to twenty per cent longer than English in running text.
Script: Latin · Family: West Germanic
The digraph ij is a single letter for capitalisation: IJsland, not Ijsland. Title-casing routines get this wrong by default.
American English
English is the shortest of the supported languages in almost every measurement, which is why interfaces designed in English tend to break when translated into anything else.
Script: Latin · Family: West Germanic
British and American spelling, date order and vocabulary differ enough to matter; choose EN-GB or EN-US explicitly instead of bare EN.
Formality in this pair
American English has no formality distinction to switch, so the formality parameter is accepted and ignored.
Ready-made request
curl -X POST https://api.vizvuz.com/v1/translate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer vz_live_xxxxxxxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"text": ["…"],
"source_lang": "NL",
"target_lang": "EN-US"
}'