English to Vietnamese Translator

This free English to Vietnamese translator uses AI to produce Vietnamese text that sounds natural, not machine-made. Type or paste your English text below and translate it in one click.

Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) is spoken by about 86 million people across Vietnam and Vietnamese communities worldwide. It belongs to the Austroasiatic language family and is written in the Latin alphabet with tone and vowel diacritics. Vietnamese has six tones written as diacritics, no verb conjugation, and a pronoun system based on age and relationship rather than a simple you and I.

Translations are processed privately and your input is not logged as raw text. English to Vietnamese is just one of the 180+ pairs available.

English and Vietnamese: key differences

Writing system and sentence structure affect how English text is rebuilt in Vietnamese.

Feature	English	Vietnamese
Writing system	the Latin alphabet	the Latin alphabet with tone and vowel diacritics
Typical word order	subject–verb–object	subject–verb–object

How to translate English to Vietnamese

Type or paste your English text into the translator above, up to 2,000 characters at a time.
Check the language selectors: English is the source and Vietnamese is the target. Use the swap button to reverse the direction.
Press Translate. Your Vietnamese translation appears in seconds, ready to copy anywhere.

Common English to Vietnamese phrases

Everyday expressions translated from English to Vietnamese:

English	Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)
Hello	Xin chào
Good night	Chúc ngủ ngon
Thank you	Cảm ơn
Please	Làm ơn
How are you?	Bạn khỏe không?
What is your name?	Bạn tên là gì?
I love you	Anh yêu em
Excuse me	Xin lỗi
Where is the bathroom?	Nhà vệ sinh ở đâu?
Goodbye	Tạm biệt

English to Vietnamese example sentences

Full sentences translated from English to Vietnamese:

English	Vietnamese
Please confirm the delivery address before 5 p.m.	Vui lòng xác nhận địa chỉ giao hàng trước 17 giờ. Professional delivery instruction · formal — Vui lòng makes a formal impersonal request, avoiding a potentially unsuitable second-person pronoun · Standard written Vietnamese (Vietnam)
I have been living in this neighborhood for five years.	Tôi sống ở khu phố này được năm năm rồi. Conversation about local experience · neutral — The unchanged verb sống combines with được, a duration and rồi to express a state continuing to the present · Standard Vietnamese (Vietnam)
I'll pick you up after class.	Chị sẽ đón em sau giờ học. Message from an older sister to a younger sibling · informal — Kinship terms encode both participants: chị is the older female speaker and em the younger addressee · Older female speaker to younger sibling or close younger person
Which bus goes to the railway station?	Xe buýt nào đi đến ga tàu? Asking for public-transport directions · neutral — The question word nào stays after the noun it selects instead of moving to the front as English which does · Standard Vietnamese (Vietnam)
We need two sheets of paper and three pens.	Chúng ta cần hai tờ giấy và ba cây bút. Planning materials for a shared task · neutral — Chúng ta includes the listener, while the numeral classifiers tờ and cây match paper sheets and pens · Standard Vietnamese; inclusive we
Don't turn off the computer yet.	Đừng tắt máy tính vội. Immediate workplace instruction · neutral — Đừng forms the negative instruction and vội idiomatically conveys not yet or not so soon · Standard Vietnamese (Vietnam)
We missed the last train because we were five minutes late.	Chúng tôi lỡ chuyến tàu cuối vì đến muộn năm phút. Explaining a travel problem · neutral — Lỡ expresses failing to catch transport, chúng tôi excludes the listener, and time is inferred without past-tense inflection · Standard Vietnamese; exclusive we

About the Vietnamese language

People most often translate Vietnamese for family, travel, and business, and the AI engine preserves the tone and context that word-for-word tools miss.

Native name: Tiếng Việt
Speakers: 86 million
Language family: Austroasiatic
Writing system: the Latin alphabet with tone and vowel diacritics
Word order: subject–verb–object

English to Vietnamese translation tips

Vietnamese pronouns depend on the age and relationship of the people speaking, so the translator infers the social context to choose natural forms. English requires an explicit subject in nearly every sentence and marks questions with word order, so translations into English often need pronouns and auxiliaries that the source language leaves out.
Vietnamese verbs do not inflect for person or tense. Time expressions and aspect words such as đã, đang, sẽ and rồi are selected for their discourse meaning, not inserted mechanically for every English tense.
Terms of address encode age, relationship, status and often gender. Kinship terms such as anh, chị and em can mean I or you depending on who is speaking, so the social setting must be known before translating.
Numerals commonly combine with noun-specific classifiers, such as tờ for sheets and cây for pen-like objects. English articles and plural endings do not map directly onto these phrases.
This bundle uses standard written Vietnamese and broadly neutral vocabulary used in Vietnam. Regionally marked northern, central and southern everyday terms require separate context and are not mixed silently.

English to Vietnamese translation FAQ

Is the English to Vietnamese translator free?

Yes. AI Translate is completely free for English to Vietnamese translation, with no account, subscription, or hidden limits beyond the 2,000-character request size.

How accurate is AI English to Vietnamese translation?

The translator uses a modern AI language model that understands context, so English to Vietnamese results read more naturally than word-for-word tools. Vietnamese pronouns depend on the age and relationship of the people speaking, so the translator infers the social context to choose natural forms. For legal, medical, or other high-stakes text, have a fluent speaker review the output.

How do you say hello in Vietnamese?

Hello in Vietnamese is Xin chào. The common-phrases table on this page lists more everyday Vietnamese expressions, such as Cảm ơn (thank you) and Tạm biệt (goodbye).

Can I translate Vietnamese back to English?

Yes. Use the swap button next to the language selectors, or open the dedicated Vietnamese to English translator page.

Is my text kept private?

Your English text is sent securely for translation and is not stored as raw content. There are no ads and no tracking cookies.

How much English text can I translate at once?

You can translate up to 2,000 characters of English per request. For longer documents, translate them in sections.

How should English 'I' and 'you' be translated into Vietnamese?

Specify the speakers' ages, relationship, status and setting. Vietnamese commonly uses reciprocal kinship or role terms, and the same word can refer to the speaker in one relationship and the addressee in another.

Does Vietnamese mark English verb tenses?

Not with verb inflection. Preserve explicit time expressions and add aspect markers only when they convey completion, continuation, intention or another distinction that the context actually requires.

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