Dutch – is a West Germanic language and a mother-tongue of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union.

Dutch is a first spoken language for about 22 million and a second language for another ca. 5 million people worldwide.

Dutch stands close to English and German and is said to be “between them”. Apart from not having undergone the High German consonant shift, Dutch—same as English—is also distinguished from German by the total abandonment of the grammatical case system, the relative rarity of the Germanic umlaut, and a more stable and predictable morphology. Dutch has effectively two genders grammatically, but this distinction has far fewer grammatical outcomes than in German. Dutch shares with German the use of “subject-verb-object” word order in main clauses and “subject-object-verb” in subordinate clauses. Dutch vocabulary is predominantly Germanic and has the same Germanic core as English, while incorporating more Roman borrowings than German.

The Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium are collectively known as Flemish (Vlaams). They differ to some extent from the “classical” Dutch spoken in the Netherlands in terms of intonation and pronunciation, and there are minor differences in vocabulary, including loanwords from French and English not present in Standard Dutch; various dialects have their own names (e.g., "Hollands", "Limburgs", "Brabants").

What is special about our Dutch translations?

Our Dutch translators’ team consists of Dutch native speakers who are experts in particular applied sector/industry. In the most complex situations we consult technical experts or the client in order to provide accurate translation for each and every term and expression.

We are continuously and scrupulously reviewing work performance of our affiliated translators, benchmarking with those language professionals who want to join our team and have considerable experience. References are readily available.

Dutch translation team has a reputation for delivering results under the most demanding conditions. If a deadline demanded by a client is tight our Dutch resources is easily-scalable: the job may be spitted between several translators, a proofreader with secure the consistency of terms/vocabulary. Quality is never sacrificed.