Translate Video to Turkish

What to expect when translating into Turkish

Turkish is agglutinative — suffixes stack onto words — and puts the verb at the end, so sentences are restructured heavily. Turkish distinguishes dotted and dotless i (i/İ and ı/I), which matters for names and capitalisation.

The Turkish voice track

Turkish TV regularly dubs foreign content, so dubbed video is familiar. Because the verb comes last, emphasis shifts compared with English.

Voice, MP4, subtitles and transcripts: 600 credits (60¢). Subtitles and transcripts only: 12 credits (1.2¢).

Turkish subtitles

Make sure your player reads subtitles as UTF-8 so ğ, ş, ı and İ display correctly.

Turkish (Türkçe) is written in the Latin alphabet.

Switch Full translation output off for subtitles only: 16 credits (1.6¢). If the video is already in Turkish, select Turkish as the language instead and the subtitles come back untranslated — see Turkish transcription.

Translating audio files into Turkish

Podcasts and recordings go through the audio translator, which returns a Turkish M4A and transcripts: 1,550 credits ($1.55) with voice, 31 credits (3.1¢) as text only.

Who translates into Turkish

Turkish is spoken in Turkey, Northern Cyprus and Turkish communities in Germany and across Europe. It's used by companies selling in Turkey, German-Turkish community organisations, and Turkish creators.

Suffixes on brand and product names

Turkish attaches case endings to proper nouns after an apostrophe: Google'da (on Google), Microsoft'un (Microsoft's), iPhone'u. The vowel in the suffix follows vowel harmony, and the consonant can change, both based on how the name is pronounced rather than how it is spelled. Turks say Google roughly as "gugıl", so the ending is -da and -ı; Microsoft ends in a voiceless t, so the locative is Microsoft'ta.

Machine translation sometimes picks an ending from the spelling, which produces forms a Turkish reader trips over. Search the translated transcript for every apostrophe after your brand and product names and have a Turkish speaker confirm the endings once; the same forms then apply to every future video. Translating names and technical terms covers keeping a glossary.

Long words in short subtitle lines

Because suffixes stack, a single Turkish word can carry a whole English clause: kullanamayacaklarımızdan means roughly "from among those we will not be able to use". Lines can only break between words, so a few long words fill a subtitle line quickly and leave awkward gaps.

Turkish also puts the verb at the end. When a long sentence is split across two cues, the viewer has to wait for the second cue to learn what happens. If a cue ends just before the verb, consider rebalancing the split in the SRT so each cue holds a complete thought. Subtitle readability has more on line length and contrast.

The dotted İ when you edit subtitles

Turkish has four i letters: i and İ with a dot, ı and I without. Most software uppercases and lowercases with English rules, so an editor turning "istanbul" into capitals writes ISTANBUL instead of İSTANBUL, and lowercasing "IŞIK" produces "işik" instead of "ışık". If you style titles or subtitles in capitals, use a tool that supports Turkish casing or check every i by eye. Search has the same blind spot: a case-insensitive search for "istanbul" in many editors will not find "İSTANBUL", so search for both spellings when checking names.

If ğ, ş or ı show up as boxes or odd symbols, the player or editor is probably reading the file in a legacy Turkish code page instead of UTF-8; subtitles show strange characters explains the fix.

Address, numbers and dates

Formal "you"

siz, with -iniz endings: "Başlamak için tıklayınız"

Informal "you"

sen: "Başlamak için tıkla"

Decimals and thousands

1.250,50 TL

Percent

sign before the number: %20 indirim

Dates and times

01.10.2026, 14:30

Corporate, government and customer-service videos usually use siz; youth brands and creators often use sen. Check that the form stays the same across the video.

Suffixes attach to numbers as well, and they follow how the number is said aloud: 2026'da because "yirmi altı" ends in a back vowel, 5'te because "beş" ends in a voiceless consonant, and "1 Ekim'de" for "on 1 October". In subtitles, a wrong ending after a digit is easy to miss on a quick read, so check dates, years and prices in particular. In the dub, the voice reads the number and its ending together, which is a quick way to hear whether the pair sounds right.

Turkish audiences in Turkey and Germany

Viewers in Turkey and the large Turkish-speaking community in Germany may need different versions. Second- and third-generation viewers in Germany are often bilingual, and a German version may reach them as well as a Turkish one. If you publish both, name the subtitle files with language codes (tr and de) and label each track on the platform so viewers can pick the one they read best. Each target language is a separate job at the same per-minute rate; see the German video translator and translating a video into multiple languages.

Turkish quality pass

1. Apostrophe suffixes on brand names checked against pronunciation.
2. Cues rebalanced where a split hides the verb.
3. Capitals checked for İ and I after any editing.
4. One form of address throughout.
5. Decimal commas, full-stop thousands and %20-style percentages.
6. Dub previewed for names and numbers that carry suffixes.

Using the tool on this page

• The spoken language is detected automatically; you select the output language — the spoken language itself for an untranslated transcript, or another language for a translation. Files can be up to 2 hours long.
• Only the audio is sent for processing — the video stays on your device — and audio and text are deleted within 30 minutes of delivery (how files are protected).
• You can download a translated video that keeps your music and effects, the translated audio as M4A, a transcript and subtitles (SRT and VTT). Every output, step and limit is explained on the video translator page.