Korean → English 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

   Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite reads Korean topic and subject particles to work out what the sentence is actually about before rebuilding it in English.

4. 4

   Result appears inline

   The English replaces your selection with omitted subjects restored and verb-final order converted.

Example Translation

Translating Korean to English

Korean marks topic and subject separately with 은/는 and 이/가, a distinction English collapses entirely - yet it determines what the sentence is about versus what is new information, which shapes how the English should be built. Korean omits subjects as freely as Japanese, so English has to reinstate them from context. Speech level is encoded in verb endings and vanishes on the way into English, taking the social relationship with it. Word order is subject-object-verb. Korean honorific verb forms can mark respect toward someone mentioned rather than the listener, a distinction with no English equivalent. Sino-Korean and native Korean vocabulary coexist with different registers, roughly the way Latinate and Anglo-Saxon words do in English.

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