Czech Translation Services

Where Czech is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Czech is the official language of the Czech Republic, also called Czechia, and one of the official languages of the European Union, with more than 10 million speakers in Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia. From the 1850s, emigration took Czech to the United States, where Czech communities grew in Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Chicago, and later to Canada, Austria and Germany, and, after the Czech Republic joined the European Union in 2004, to the United Kingdom. The destination decides the type of translation.

Czech translation services for Bohemia, Moravia and the Czech diaspora

Czech is one language across the Czech Republic, but Bohemia and Moravia have their own everyday forms, and Czech documents follow their own formats. A good translation keeps every letter of the original and reads naturally to whoever receives it.

• Letters: Czech is written in the Latin alphabet with the háček in č, ř, š, ž and ě, the acute accent in á, é, í, ó, ú and ý and the ring in ů, and ch counts as a single letter. Systems abroad often drop the marks, so Dvořák becomes Dvorak and Plzeň becomes Plzen, and the translation keeps every letter exactly as in the original.
• Names: most surnames have a female form, so the wife or daughter of Novák is Nováková and the female form of Novotný is Novotná, and some women abroad use the surname without -ová. Czech also changes names inside a sentence, so Petr Novák can appear as Petra Nováka, and Petra is also a woman's name. Tell us the spelling used in your US documents when you order.
• Regions: in spoken Czech from Bohemia, dobrý (good) often becomes dobrej and mléko (milk) becomes mlíko, and in Brno the tram is called šalina. Official documents always use standard written Czech (spisovná čeština).
• Dates and numbers: dates are written day, month and year with periods and often spaces, so 3. 10. 2026 is October 3, 2026, and months in words have their own Slavic names, as in 3. října 2026. Decimals use a comma and thousands a space, so 1 500,00 is one thousand five hundred.
• Documents: the birth certificate (rodný list), the marriage certificate (oddací list) and the ID card (občanský průkaz) carry the birth number (rodné číslo), in which women have 50 added to the month. Documents issued before 1993 often name Czechoslovakia (ČSR, ČSSR or ČSFR). The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.