English to Russian Translator

Free AI translation from English to Russian, built to carry grammar and register across, not just words.

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What changes when you translate English to Russian

Translating English into Russian changes more than the words. Russian declines nouns and adjectives across six cases, has no articles, and pairs most verbs into perfective and imperfective aspects. Russian has no articles and free word order driven by emphasis, so translations need case endings and aspect choices that plain word-for-word substitution gets wrong. A word-for-word tool gets the vocabulary right and these things wrong, which is why the translator above reads the whole sentence before it writes anything.

English and Russian: key differences

English and Russian diverge on the writing system, word order, grammatical gender, formality, subject pronouns, and articles. Each row below is a place where swapping words one for one produces the wrong Russian sentence.

Feature	English	Russian
Writing system	the Latin alphabet	the Cyrillic alphabet
Typical word order	subject–verb–object	subject–verb–object, with flexible order
Grammatical gender	no grammatical gender	three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter)
Formality	no formal/informal distinction	informal and formal second person (ты / вы)
Subject pronouns	required	dropped when context is clear
Articles	definite and indefinite	no articles

English to Russian example sentences

Full sentences translated from English to Russian:

English	Russian
Could you clarify which version of the contract is final?	Не могли бы Вы уточнить, какая версия договора окончательная? Formal email to one business contact · formal — A polite request uses past plural могли with formal Вы; договора is genitive after версия · Contemporary standard Russian; one formally addressed recipient
I read a report every morning, but I haven't finished today's one yet.	Я каждое утро читаю отчёт, но сегодняшний ещё не дочитал. Workplace progress update · neutral — Imperfective читаю describes a routine, while perfective дочитал concerns reaching today's endpoint and marks a male speaker · Male speaker
Put the documents on the desk, not in the drawer.	Положите документы на стол, а не в ящик. Polite instruction in an office · formal — Perfective положите requests one completed placement; motion toward surfaces and interiors takes accusative after на and в · Formal singular or polite plural address
A woman came into the office; she was carrying a red folder.	В офис вошла женщина; в руках у неё была красная папка. Narrative introducing a new person · neutral — Russian introduces the indefinite woman without an article and uses presentational word order; possession is recast as в руках у неё
Text me when you get there.	Напиши мне, когда доберёшься. Message to a friend who is travelling · informal — Perfective present-form доберёшься refers to a future completed arrival after когда, unlike the English present form
Don't worry; we'll figure it out as we go.	Не переживай, разберёмся по ходу дела. Reassuring a teammate one knows well · informal — The idiom по ходу дела replaces a literal translation of as we go, and the first-person plural subject is omitted
I am cold, but the tea has gone cold too.	Мне холодно, но и чай тоже остыл. Contrasting a person's sensation with a change in temperature · neutral — A person's sensation uses dative мне plus an impersonal predicative, while остыл is a perfective change-of-state verb for the tea

Common English to Russian phrases

Everyday expressions translated from English to Russian:

English	Russian (Русский)
Hello	Здравствуйте (zdravstvuyte)
Good night	Спокойной ночи (spokoynoy nochi)
Thank you	Спасибо (spasibo)
Please	Пожалуйста (pozhaluysta)
How are you?	Как дела? (kak dela?)
What is your name?	Как вас зовут? (kak vas zovut?)
I love you	Я тебя люблю (ya tebya lyublyu)
Excuse me	Извините (izvinite)
Where is the bathroom?	Где туалет? (gde tualet?)
Goodbye	До свидания (do svidaniya)

About the Russian language

Russian (Русский) is spoken by about 255 million people across Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It belongs to the Slavic (Indo-European) language family and is written in the Cyrillic alphabet.

Native name: Русский
Speakers: 255 million
Language family: Slavic (Indo-European)
Writing system: the Cyrillic alphabet
Word order: subject–verb–object, with flexible order

English to Russian translation tips

English is written in the Latin alphabet, and Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, so the translator converts between writing systems for you.
This bundle defaults to contemporary standard Russian as used in Russia. It does not claim review of regional or diaspora varieties.
Russian nouns, adjectives and pronouns inflect for six cases. Choose case from the Russian verb, preposition and role, then align modifiers throughout the phrase.
Most Russian verbs participate in an aspect distinction. Imperfective commonly presents processes, habits or repetition; perfective presents a bounded event, but the exact contrast is lexical and contextual rather than a tense conversion rule.
Russian has no indefinite or definite articles. Context, information structure, demonstratives and later pronouns may carry distinctions expressed by English a and the.
Use ты with singular verb forms for familiar address and вы with plural forms for formal singular or plural address. In correspondence to one respected recipient, Вы and related forms may be capitalized; plural вы remains lowercase.

Russian false friends to watch for

фамилия looks like “family” but means surname or family name.
магазин looks like “magazine” but means shop or store.
аккуратный looks like “accurate” but means neat, careful or tidy.

English to Russian translation FAQ

How accurate is AI English to Russian translation?

The translator uses a modern AI language model that understands context, so English to Russian results read more naturally than word-for-word tools. For legal, medical, or other high-stakes text, have a fluent speaker review the output.

How do you say hello in Russian?

Hello in Russian is Здравствуйте (zdravstvuyte). The common-phrases table on this page lists more everyday Russian expressions, such as Спасибо (spasibo) (thank you) and До свидания (do svidaniya) (goodbye).

How should Russian verb aspect be chosen from English?

Decide whether the context presents a process, habit or repeated event, or instead a bounded event and its result. Then select the natural Russian verb and aspect together; English tense alone is not enough.

Should formal Russian 'you' be written Вы or вы?

Capitalized Вы is used as a respectful written address to one specific person. Use lowercase вы for multiple addressees and in contexts where editorial style does not call for the courtesy capital.

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