German is one of the languages used most intensively in Turkey's industrial and machinery trade. mots Tercüme translates technical documentation, contracts, commercial correspondence and company papers between German and Turkish.
Industrial and machinery documents
A significant share of German jobs consists of machine manuals, maintenance documents, technical specifications and certificates of conformity. In these documents, term consistency and the grading of warning statements are decisive.
Compound words
German joins more than one concept in a single compound word. In Turkish this is usually rendered with a noun phrase; which concept the phrase brings to the fore is chosen according to the context.
Germany, Austria, Switzerland
The German of the three countries differs in some terms and in spelling; in Swiss German the letter ß is not used. If it is known at the outset which country the document is going to, terms are chosen accordingly.
Level of address
In corporate German correspondence the formal form of address is the rule. If the Turkish source has a friendly tone, that tone is kept in the German text within the formal form of address.
Text expansion
German text usually comes out noticeably longer than its Turkish source. In narrow spaces such as buttons, labels and table cells, this expansion is taken into account at the outset.
References to standards and norms
German technical documents frequently refer to national and European standards. Standard numbers are not translated; if the name of the standard is needed, it is given with its official title.
Company types and registry documents
Company types such as GmbH and AG are not translated; they are kept together with the trade name. The fields of the trade registry extract are carried over in translation in the order of the source.
Contracts and general terms and conditions
German companies generally attach their own general terms and conditions to a commercial relationship. In translating these terms, the clause structure and the cross-references are preserved exactly.
The capitalisation rule
In German all nouns begin with a capital letter. In translation from Turkish into German this rule is part of the spelling; in translation from German into Turkish the capital letter is not carried over.
Number and date format
In German the decimal separator is a comma, as in Turkish, and the date is written in the order day, month, year. This closeness is a convenience, but it calls for separate care with figures that come from an intermediate English source.
From German into Turkish
When manuals and standards with a German source are carried over into Turkish, long and nested sentences are split. The integrity of the meaning is preserved and the sentence structure is built for the way Turkish reads.
When certification is needed
If the German translation is to be submitted to an authority, a sworn signature, notarisation and, depending on the country the document is going to, an apostille may be required. The chain is explained in the legalisation chain section.
Services requested together
German jobs most often come under technical translation and software localisation. In machinery documents with a high repetition rate, the translation memory shortens the turnaround.
Summary
Two things are decisive in German corporate translation: rendering compound terms consistently and taking text expansion into account at the outset. A technical document in which these two are planned produces no surprises at the final stage.