European Portuguese translation services

European Portuguese translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with voice-over timing factored in from the start rather than added as an extra cost later. Send your files and we'll come back with a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native translators based in Portugal handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews the text before delivery, checking that verb forms — including the personal infinitive — and register are correct so the result reads and sounds natural to a Portuguese audience.

Yes — European Portuguese translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary and register throughout. Scripts are timed to how the language is actually spoken rather than to a syllable count taken from the page, which keeps voice over and subtitles in sync.

It's a verb form that changes depending on who is performing the action — falar, falares, falarmos — with no real equivalent in English. Getting it wrong doesn't just sound off; it can make a sentence genuinely ambiguous once translated, so it's checked on every line, not just flagged as a curiosity.

European Portuguese drops or shortens most unstressed vowels in everyday speech, so a written sentence often has more syllables on the page than a native speaker actually pronounces. For voice over this changes pacing, so we time scripts against the spoken form rather than a syllable count taken from the text alone.

Yes — audiovisual is our specialisation. We deliver spotted SRT/VTT and timed two-column voice-over scripts, plus translated text when you need it.

A script timed only from written syllables tends to run short once an actor actually speaks it, leaving dead air or forcing an unnatural pace. We build the timing sheet from how the line sounds spoken, so studio sessions run to the schedule instead of needing a re-time on the day.

No — different vocabulary, grammar habits and pronunciation mean they read as two separate languages to an audience, even though they share a name. We treat them as two services with different translators, and we'll flag it if your source material looks written for the wrong one.

Most short documents are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Word count, subject complexity and turnaround all move the date, and your project manager will confirm the timeline at the start.

Less than people expect: the document, script or subtitle file, its word count, what the text is actually for, and the date you need it by. A draft is fine — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for a final version that eats your deadline. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.