cognates.app is a multilingual translation tool that lets you translate words or short text into many languages at the same time. Choose from over 230 languages, from Arabic, Hindi, and Japanese to Indonesian, Swahili, and Welsh, and see every translation in one place.

It is especially useful if you want to compare languages side by side, spot cognates and shared roots, explore language families, or support etymology and historical linguistics research. Language learners, teachers, writers, and polyglots can use cognates.app to see how the same word or phrase is expressed across related and unrelated languages.

For example, you can compare the word "wagon" across Indo-European languages, such as German, Swedish, Icelandic, but also Hindi and figure out how similar they are. Or you can compare the word "love" across Romance languages, such as French, Spanish and Italian find the same. Explore yourself!

We also have many old, extinct languages in our database, such as Gothic, Old English, Latin, Aramaic, Ancient Greek, Old French, Sanskrit and more so you can see how words developed over time.

Cognates.app uses AI so translations can be wrong.