English to Tagalog Translation
Translate English to Tagalog free, up to 5,000 characters. Both are Philippine languages, and machine translation between them is weaker than between either and English — the engine routes through English internally.
Ctrl + Enter to translate · Ctrl + Shift + S to swap. Output is machine-generated — check anything that matters.
We have not written dedicated guidance for this pair yet, so this page is the tool alone. Our checked phrase data covers Philippine languages — start with the Ilocano to Tagalog translator.
About these two languages
Census figures below are from the 2020 Philippine Statistics Authority count of the language generally spoken at home.
English
- Family
- Indo-European › Germanic › West Germanic
Co-official in the Philippines and the bridge language most machine translation systems pivot through — including this one. Ilocano↔Tagalog output is usually routed via English internally, which is a large part of why it drops nuance.
Tagalog
- Family
- Austronesian › Malayo-Polynesian › Central Philippine
- Households (2020)
- 10,522,507
- Spoken in
- Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas
Spoken at home in 39.9% of Philippine households. Filipino, the national language, is standardised Tagalog — which is why both share the code 'tl'.
When not to rely on this
- · Legal, medical or financial documents.
- · Anything going into print or public signage.
- · Names, addresses and place names — these are passed through or mangled unpredictably.
- · Regional Ilocano vocabulary outside the Ilocos Norte/Sur standard.
- · Anything where formality or respect matters, given the register drift above.
We measured this engine on 153 checked Ilocano phrases and it matched the human translation 57% of the time. See the full audit.
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Translations are produced by a general-purpose machine translation engine and are not a substitute for a professional translator.