English → Arabic Translation

How It Works

1. 1

   Select your text

   Highlight the text you want to translate in any application - email, a document, a browser tab, or a chat window.

2. 2

   Press the shortcut

   Hit your configured Echoo keyboard shortcut. Nothing is copied to the clipboard and no window opens.

3. 3

   AI translates

   GPT-5.2 handles Arabic's root-and-pattern morphology, where a three-consonant root generates dozens of related forms that a word-for-word approach cannot reach.

4. 4

   Result appears inline

   The Arabic is pasted back in place as right-to-left text, so it renders correctly even inside a left-to-right document.

Example Translation

Translating English to Arabic

Arabic is written right to left, which breaks naively in apps that assume left-to-right - text pastes in reversed or with punctuation stranded at the wrong end. Grammatically, Arabic builds words from three-consonant roots run through patterns: k-t-b gives kataba, kitāb, maktab, kātib. Reaching the right derived form is a morphological operation, not a lookup. Modern Standard Arabic is the written register everywhere, but nobody speaks it natively, and Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine and Maghrebi differ enough that a message in the wrong one reads as foreign. Arabic also marks duality separately from plural, a distinction English lost entirely. Written Arabic normally omits short-vowel diacritics, so context has to disambiguate words that are otherwise identical.

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