English → Dutch Translation
Translate English to Dutch seamlessly on your Mac - fast, accurate, and natural-sounding output.
How It Works
Select your text
Highlight the text you want to translate in any application - email, a document, a browser tab, or a chat window.
Press the shortcut
Hit your configured Echoo keyboard shortcut. Nothing is copied to the clipboard and no window opens.
AI translates
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite places Dutch verbs correctly, since main and subordinate clauses put them in different positions within the same sentence.
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The Dutch is pasted back in place with compound nouns written closed up, as Dutch orthography requires.
Example Translation
English (Original)
The cycling route through the countryside is approximately 45 kilometers. Make sure to bring water and sunscreen.
Dutch (Translated)
De fietsroute door het platteland is ongeveer 45 kilometer. Vergeet niet om water en zonnebrandcrème mee te nemen.
Translating English to Dutch
Dutch looks close enough to English to invite false confidence, and that is the trap. Verb placement follows verb-second order in main clauses and verb-final in subordinate ones, so a single sentence can require two different positions. Compounds are written as one word - klantenservicemedewerker rather than three separate nouns - and splitting them is the most common giveaway in machine-translated Dutch. The de/het article split has no reliable rule and must be memorised per noun. Dutch also has u alongside je and jij, though Dutch business writing has moved toward informality faster than German or French, so over-formal Dutch now reads as stiff rather than respectful. False friends abound: eventueel means possibly, not eventually.
Recommended Setup
Best model for this pair
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite handles English to Dutch best in our testing. Any provider you have configured will work - this is the one to pick if you have a choice.
Voice dictation
Dictation is supported for English, so you can speak instead of typing and have the result translated in the same step.
Tips for Better Translations
Dutch and Flemish (Belgian Dutch) have notable differences - specify your target audience in the command settings.
Dutch compound words follow specific rules - the AI correctly handles words like "zonnebrandcrème" and "fietsenstalling".
The diminutive suffixes (-je, -tje, -pje) are used differently than in other languages - the AI applies them naturally.
For Surinamese Dutch, add a region specification to your Echoo command.
Frequently Asked Questions
By default, Echoo produces Netherlands Dutch. You can configure it for Flemish (Belgian Dutch) which uses different vocabulary and expressions in many contexts.
Very well. AI models correctly handle Dutch V2 word order, subordinate clause structure, and separable verbs.
Yes. You can set up Echoo commands for any language pair, including Dutch-to-German, Dutch-to-French, or any other combination.
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