English-Croatian technical translations

The Croatian language connects people in different countries

Of the approximately seven million people with Croatian as their mother tongue, only about four million actually live in Croatia. Additionally, another three million Croatian speaking people live in the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. Altogether, the language spreads even further. In parts of Austria and Hungary, the language is so popular that it has an official status in certain regions.

As a matter of fact, Croatian has close linguistic ties to other Serbo-Croatian variants such as Serbian or Bosnian. Therefore, the number of people who can follow a conversation in Croatian is much greater than generally assumed.

Germany as Croatia’s most important trading partner

Unquestionably, Croatian is of crucial importance for German companies with business connections in the Balkan countries. As an illustration, economic relations between the two countries increased significantly following Croatia’s accession to the European Union in 2013. Evidently, Germany plays a special role in the Croatian economy. It is its most important trading partner. In particular, machinery and technical equipment account for a considerable proportion of Croatian imports. Equally important to the trading relationship are other capital and consumer goods.

Nevertheless: Without comprehensible operating instructions in the local language, even the best machine is only of limited use. Consequently, PRODOC is happy to take on translating your technical texts into Croatian.

In order to produce an accurate and unambiguous user manual in Croatian, technical training of the translator is essential. They need the appropriate industry background, knowledge and expertise. Thereby, PRODOC guarantees that the necessary specialist vocabulary is used.

With this purpose in mind, our Croatian translators are engineers or technicians who have a sound expert knowledge. This enables them to reliably translate demanding technical texts.

Not only do they use use this knowledge for the translation of complicated operating instructions. But also for the production of advertising texts for flyers and brochures.

Native speakers also have the best grasp of the language and its subtleties

In addition to their technical understanding, PRODOC translators, as native speakers, also have the best understanding of the subtleties and peculiarities of the Croatian language. They are able to detect dangerous traps and pitfalls and elegantly circumnavigate them during their translation from English into Croatian.

Unlike in many other Balkan countries where Cyrillic letters are used, our English to Croatian translators can largely rely on the Latin alphabet in their work. However, this is supplemented by some special characters, so that the Croatian alphabet today comprises a total of 30 characters. Some of the letters commonly used in English are omitted for this purpose. For example, Q, W, X and Y are not part of the Croatian alphabet.

However, the Latin alphabet was not introduced in Croatia until the 18th century. Previously, the scribes used the Glagolitic script, which was developed in the 9th century and is considered the oldest of the Slavic scripts.

Accuracy down to the smallest detail is a matter of course at PRODOC

As a PRODOC customer, you can always be sure that we take the greatest care when translating your texts from English into Croatian. Exact wording and accuracy, even in the smallest details, are just as important in technology as they are in translations.

Since our employees are familiar with both worlds, they are able to view a text from different perspectives and deliver correspondingly good results. We gladly provide an overview of our quality work at any time.