English to Vietnamese Translator

Free English to Vietnamese translation, plus the Vietnamese grammar that trips up English speakers.

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What changes when you translate English to Vietnamese

Translating English into Vietnamese changes more than the words. 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. Vietnamese pronouns depend on the age and relationship of the people speaking, so the translator infers the social context to choose natural forms. 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 Vietnamese: key differences

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

Feature	English	Vietnamese
Writing system	the Latin alphabet	the Latin alphabet with tone and vowel diacritics
Formality	no formal/informal distinction	address terms chosen by age and status (anh, chị, em)
Subject pronouns	required	dropped when context is clear
Articles	definite and indefinite	no articles; classifiers do related work

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

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

About the Vietnamese language

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.

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 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

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. 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).

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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