A form can be offered in other languages. People filling it in can switch language, or you can share a link for one language. Anything left untranslated shows your original text. Answers reach you labelled with the language used.
What you need
- A form you have built. See Building and publishing a form.
- For Translate, Grace and AI credits. You can type translations yourself without them.
Add a language
- Open the form, choose Settings, then the Look & options tab.
- Under Languages, choose Add a language…, or type a language code such as
pl. - Choose Translate to fill in what is missing automatically, or Edit to type translations yourself. You can review and edit machine translations afterwards.
- Publish. Translations are published with the form.
Translate uses AI and spends your organisation’s AI credits. It translates only what is missing, in batches of 10 strings, and carries on where it stopped if you press it again. If the credits run out it stops with a message. Press Translate again when you have more.
What respondents see
The browser’s language chooses the language the form opens in, and a globe switch changes it. Right-to-left languages lay out right to left.
When the original changes
If you change the original text after a translation, that translation is marked stale and shows in Edit for review. Review it, then publish again.
If something does not work
- Translate stops part-way. The AI credits ran out. Press it again later.
- A string is still in the original language. It has no translation. Use Edit to add one.
To see which language each person used, see Reading and exporting form responses.