Swedish translation services

Swedish translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with agreeing the form of address included as part of the brief rather than billed as an extra step. Send your files and we will come back with a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native Swedish linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking among other things that the pronoun and the possessives that agree with it are consistent across the whole programme.

Yes — Swedish translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary and one form of address throughout, so the subtitles and the recorded narration never address the viewer differently.

For material addressed to an individual reader or viewer, du. The Language Council of Sweden gives it as the normal form, and the government's own writing rules say the same for public information. ni is for several people, or when you are genuinely addressing a company rather than a person.

That is the instinct English and most European languages give you, and in Swedish it does not hold. Using ni for a single reader is more likely to read as dated or distancing than as respectful, and it can be read as addressing the reader's employer instead of the reader.

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

It is possible but it is not cheap, because it is not one word. The choice pulls the possessives and the verb forms around it, so the change reaches most sentences that address the viewer. That is why we ask at the brief rather than after the pilot.

Finland-Swedish differs in vocabulary and in some official terminology, and it is one of the two national languages of Finland, where 285,360 people are registered as Swedish speakers. We treat it as a separate request rather than applying it by default.

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.