Arabic to English

How good is it, measured

COMET 86.4 for Arabic → English, over 200 sentences of the FLORES-200 test set, with the checks running — the recipe that ships. At that score it reads naturally; you would edit wording, not meaning.

COMET is a standard automatic measure of translation quality, not a percentage of words correct; it is the number machine-translation research reports, which is why we report it rather than a figure of our own devising. We publish it for the 45 pairs we have actually run. A pair we have not measured gets no page and no number, because an interpolated score would be a guess presented as a fact.

Five real translations, unedited

These sentences come from FLORES-200, the public test set that translation research is measured on. They were chosen before anything was translated — the same five on every pair page — and each is shown exactly as Traxlate returned it on an RTX 3070, next to the translation a professional translator wrote for the same sentence.

A different word from the reference is not an error: two good translators rarely match word for word. What to look for is whether the meaning, the numbers and the names came through.

1. Arabic — original

   أضاف قائلاً، "لدينا الآن فئران تبلغ من العمر 4 أشهر التي كانت تعاني في السابق من مرض السكري، ولكنها لم تعد تعاني منه الآن.

   Traxlate, on the device · 0.55 s

   He added, "We now have 4-month-old rats who had diabetes before, but no longer have it. They are no longer diabetic.

   Human reference translation

   "We now have 4-month-old mice that are non-diabetic that used to be diabetic," he added.

   Traxlate flagged this one for a second look: this sentence names a person the original does not mention — check it

2. Arabic — original

   على سبيل المثال، لم يكن لديهم ذرة، أو طماطم، أو بطاطس، أو كاكاو ولم يتذوق أي من الرومان القدامى الديك الرومي.

   Traxlate, on the device · 0.48 s

   For example, they had no corn, tomatoes, potatoes, or cocoa and none of the ancient Romans tasted turkey. Rump is a turkey.

   Human reference translation

   For instance, they didn't have corn, nor tomatoes, nor potatoes, nor cocoa, and no ancient Roman ever tasted a turkey.

   Traxlate flagged this one for a second look: this sentence names a person the original does not mention — check it; the translation may have broken this sentence in two — check the stray period

3. Arabic — original

   يؤدي الامتلاك الجماعي للسيارات أيضاً إلى ارتفاع معدل الحوادث على الطرق، مما يؤدي إلى ابتكار تقنيات جديدة في الرعاية الصحية لعلاج الأجسام المتضررة.

   Traxlate, on the device · 0.69 s

   Collective ownership of cars also leads to a higher rate of road accidents, which leads to the development of new health care techniques to treat affected bodies.

   Human reference translation

   Mass car ownership also leads to a higher incidence of accidents on the roads, which leads to the invention of new techniques in healthcare for repairing damaged bodies.

4. Arabic — original

   الطقس القاسي هو المصطلح العام لأي ظاهرة مناخية خطيرة قد تسبب ضررًا أو اضطرابًا اجتماعيًا خطيرًا، أو خسارة في الأرواح.

   Traxlate, on the device · 0.66 s

   Extreme weather is the general term for any severe climatic phenomenon that may cause serious damage, social disruption, or loss of life.

   Human reference translation

   Severe weather is the generic term for any dangerous weather phenomenon with the potential to cause damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life.

   Traxlate flagged this one for a second look: an "all / every / always" may have been lost — check it

5. Arabic — original

   يعتمد مطبخ مايوركا، مثل بقية المناطق المماثلة في البحر الأبيض المتوسط، على الخبز والخضروات واللحوم (خاصة لحم الخنزير)، ويُستخدم زيت الزيتون في جميع الأشياء.

   Traxlate, on the device · 0.79 s

   Majorcan cuisine, like other similar regions in the Mediterranean, relies on bread, vegetables and meat (especially pork), and olive oil is used in everything.

   Human reference translation

   Majorcan cuisine, like that of similar zones in the Mediterranean, is based on bread, vegetables and meat (specially pork), and uses olive oil throughout.

   Traxlate flagged this one for a second look: the first draft looped on this short text — kept the clean part, check it

Sentences: FLORES-200 devtest, by Meta AI, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Translated 2026-09-24.

What you can translate

• Text — type, paste or dictate, and read it back in English.
• Documents — Word, PowerPoint, Excel, EPUB and subtitles, with the formatting kept rather than flattened.
• PDFs — including scanned ones, read on the device.
• Pictures — photograph a sign or a menu in Arabic and read it in English.

Why it stays on your device

The engine and the language pack are downloaded once and run locally. There is no Arabic-to-English API call behind this page: the server rung was removed in August 2026, so a hard sentence cannot quietly be sent away to be handled. That matters most for the documents people actually translate — contracts, medical letters, filings. The privacy model says exactly what does and does not leave, and the security page covers the rest.

What is checked before you see it

Each sentence is drafted, then checked for the failures that change meaning rather than style: a dropped negation, a changed number or amount, a name that went missing, a date that shifted. Where a check is not satisfied the sentence is redrafted. Arabic and English are covered by the language-specific tables built for 18 languages. The status line names the step it is on, and anything it could not settle is shown to you rather than hidden.

The other direction, and each language on its own

• English to Arabic — measured separately; the score differs by direction.
• Arabic on Traxlate — script, voices, picture reading and what else is supported.
• English on Traxlate — the same, for the target.

Other pairs we have measured

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