Your partner's family speaks French, your best friend lives in Amsterdam and half of your colleagues reply in English? Then simply offer your page in several languages. Your texts are translated automatically, your guests pick their own language, and you never have to look up a single word yourself.
These 19 translation languages are ready for you
Alongside German you can offer English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Portuguese (Portugal), Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Croatian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Arabic and Persian, one at a time or several at once. Each language gets its own address and its own version of your texts.
Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are three separate versions, each with its own vocabulary. Serbian always appears in Latin script. Greek, Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian appear in their own scripts. Names and places stay in Latin script, just as you wrote them. Still, have a quick look at them under „Texte prüfen“ (review texts).
Arabic and Persian are read from right to left, and in these languages your whole page follows suit: texts, the sign-up form and the gallery start on the right. Your photos and the position of your cover image text stay just as you chose them. Dates appear in the Gregorian calendar, with the month name in the language in question and with the same digits you write yourself, so 15 and 2026 rather than the digits of the Arabic script. Arabic is translated into Modern Standard Arabic, and Persian the way it is written in Iran.
Other languages are not available at the moment. German is always the base language of your page: every translation is made from your German texts.
Adding a language
Open the editor and click Stil & Schriften → Sprachen (style and fonts, languages) in the sidebar.
Click „Sprache hinzufügen" (add a language) and pick a language from the list. It appears straight away as a row of its own.
In that row, click „Jetzt übersetzen" (translate now). While it runs you read „Übersetze 6 Abschnitte …" (translating 6 sections). Translation only starts on your click, so nothing happens unasked.
Have a look at the result: the little eye button in the row switches the preview to that language, and further down there are small tiles for every language including German.
Click „Veröffentlichen" (publish) at the top right. Only that puts the language live for your guests. The editor reminds you: „Die Sprachen werden mit dem nächsten Veröffentlichen live." (Your languages go live with the next publish.)
The toggle in each language row decides whether that language comes along with your next publish. So you can work on French in peace and only release it once you are happy.
What your guests see
A small language switcher with flags appears at the top right of your page. Arabic and Persian show a small letter of their own script instead of a flag, because both are spoken in more than one country. On these two versions the switcher sits at the top left. With two languages both codes sit next to each other, for example DE and EN. From three languages on it becomes a compact button that opens a list with the language names, so that nothing overflows on a phone.
Every language also has an address of its own: just add /en, /fr, /es and so on to your link. For Portuguese it is /pt. Some codes look different from what you might expect: Albanian is /sq, Greek /el, Ukrainian /uk and Persian /fa. You can send that direct link to particular guests and they land in their language right away. Personal invitation links with a code keep working, and the code is not lost when the language changes.
Good to know: For English the interface is translated as well, so buttons, forms and hints. For the other languages your own texts are translated while the interface appears in English. The editor tells you so on every affected language with the line „Bedienelemente erscheinen auf Englisch" (interface elements appear in English). In Arabic and Persian these English labels are right-aligned as well, and their punctuation stays in the right place.
Fonts: Many fonts have no Greek or Cyrillic letters, and some also lack special characters such as č or ș, while only Rubik has Arabic letters. On your page in these languages and in the editor preview, a matching fallback font steps in automatically for any missing characters, so everything stays clearly readable. Your chosen font is still used for every letter it knows.
What it costs
One language is free. You can translate it as often as you like.
Further languages need Premium. Without active Premium you read „Eine Sprache ist gratis. Für weitere brauchst du das Premium-Paket." (One language is free. You need Premium for more.)
There is a 30 second pause between two runs of the same language. The button then briefly says „Bitte kurz warten" (please wait a moment).
You use the least by writing all of your German texts first and translating afterwards.
Letting a language go again
Two ways, depending on what you have in mind:
Just pause it: switch the toggle in the language row off. With your next publish it disappears from your guests' switcher, while its texts stay with you.
Remove it completely: click the three dots in the row and choose „Sprache entfernen" (remove language). We ask once, because this deletes all texts of that language, including your own corrections. Your German page stays untouched.
Frequently asked questions
Can I add another language as well?
No, unfortunately not at the moment. You can choose from the 19 translation languages above. If a language is missing for you, just let us know.
Can I rewrite individual sentences myself?
Yes, at any time. Use the three dots in the language row and open „Texte prüfen" (review texts). Your German text sits on the left and the translation on the right, ready for you to change. There is more about this in the article on keeping your translations up to date.
Are my invitation emails translated too?
No. What gets translated is the content of your sections. Invitation emails and the sharing preview stay in German.
I cannot see the language switcher in the editor preview.
That is on purpose. In the editor you change languages with the tiles under „Vorschau" (preview) in the Sprachen area. The switcher for your guests only appears on the published page.
What happens if somebody opens /fr although I do not offer French?
Then that guest simply sees the German page. There is no error message.
It says „Es gibt noch keine übersetzbaren Inhalte."
That means there are no texts on your page yet. Add sections with content first, then translation will work.