Languages

Translate Portuguese to American English

Send source_lang PT and target_lang EN-US and the API returns American English text. Here is what makes this pair different from the others.

Portuguese

Example output is not available yet for this language.

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.

Portuguese

Portuguese differs enough between Portugal and Brazil in vocabulary, verb usage and pronoun placement that translating for one audience and shipping to the other is noticeable immediately.

Script: Latin · Family: Romance

Choose PT-PT or PT-BR explicitly; bare PT resolves to PT-PT and will read as foreign to a Brazilian audience.

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.

How the formality parameter works

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": "PT",
        "target_lang": "EN-US"
      }'

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