Languages

One form, four languages

In Belgium and along most European borders, a single-language form quietly excludes part of your audience. TinyForms runs its interface, validation messages and emails in English, Dutch, French and German, so the only thing you write is your own questions.

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The problem it solves

Duplicating a form into a second language doubles every future change, and the two copies drift apart within a season. Worse, the parts you did not write yourself, the buttons, the error messages, the confirmation email, usually stay in one language anyway, so even a translated form still reads as half-translated to the people using it.

Who this is for

Anyone whose audience does not share one language.

  • Bilingual schools and schools in border regions
  • Associations with members across a language boundary
  • Events that draw an international audience
  • Organisations in Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland

How it works in TinyForms

Language is handled in two independent places: the application you work in, and the form your respondents see.

  1. 1

    Your own interface language

    Every user picks the language they work in, saved on their account. It has no effect on what respondents see.

  2. 2

    A language per form

    A form can be pinned to English, Dutch, French or German, which fixes the buttons, validation messages and emails to that language. Leave it unset and the form follows the visitor's browser instead.

  3. 3

    Your questions stay yours

    Labels, help text and options are the words you type. The framing around them is what TinyForms translates.

  4. 4

    Emails in the same language

    The owner notification and the submitter confirmation are rendered in the form's language, so a French respondent gets a French confirmation.

Plans and limits

The honest boundaries of what "multilingual" means here.

Available on every plan

All four languages are part of every plan, including Free.

Four languages, not any language

English, Dutch, French and German are supported. A visitor whose browser asks for anything else gets English.

Your own text is not translated for you

TinyForms does not machine-translate your questions. If you want the same form in two languages word for word, you duplicate it and translate the labels, and the surrounding interface follows automatically.

Common questions

Does the form follow the visitor's language automatically?
If you leave the form's language unset, yes: it follows the browser and falls back to English. Pin a language when the content is written in one language and the interface should match it.
Are the confirmation emails translated too?
Yes. Both the notification to you and the confirmation to the respondent are rendered in the form's language.
Can two people in the same workspace work in different languages?
Yes. The interface language is a per-user setting.
Is the help centre available in all four languages?
Yes, and every article has the same address in each language, so switching language on an article keeps you on that article.

Build a form everyone can read

Pick the language per form, or let it follow whoever opens it.

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