Languages
Translate English to Russian
Send source_lang EN and target_lang RU and the API returns Russian text. Here is what makes this pair different from the others.
English
A translation should read as if a person wrote it.
Russian
Перевод должен читаться так, как будто его написал человек.
Example output produced by the vizvuz Engine and cached — not a hand-written translation.
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.
Russian
Russian has six cases, three genders and no articles, so definiteness that English carries in the word "the" has to be expressed through word order or left implicit.
Script: Cyrillic · Family: East Slavic
Russian has one, few, many and other plural categories, and the rule depends on the last two digits; test 1, 2, 5, 11 and 21.
Formality in this pair
Вы is the formal address and is capitalised when addressing one person in writing; ты is informal.
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": "EN",
"target_lang": "RU"
}'