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Translation into Estonian
Estonia is a small post-Soviet country that never ceases to amaze the world with its achievements and rapid development. The state carefully preserves its cultural heritage, cherishes and cares for its language.
The largest European bath marathons and song and dance festivals are held here, and fans of something unusual are invited to visit the field of meteorite craters. This makes Estonia popular in terms of tourism: with a population of 1.3 million, the country annually receives about 2 million tourists, among whom there are many Ukrainians.
Estonia is known for its achievements in the field of digital integration and optimal conditions for rapid opening of businesses and startups. Ukrainians see this as an opportunity to develop international business ties.
The need to translate from Russian into Estonian may arise while preparing a package of documents for a tourist trip, opening a business or investing in an existing company. At the same time, the amateur translation of most documents is unacceptable: there are a number of rules and requirements, so if they are not followed, they are not legally binding and are not accepted by Estonian authorities.
Translation of documents from Russian into Estonian
Certified translation from Russian into Estonian may be required when processing personal, legal or commercial documents, for example:
- for tourist trips — personal, insurance and bank documents;
- for commercial activities — business correspondence, contracts, specifications, banking and customs documentation;
- for education — certificates, diplomas, academic references;
- for employment — certificates and diplomas with applications, resumes, recommendations, prompt translation of criminal record certificates;
- when registering a family relationship with an Estonian citizen — marriage contracts, certificates of the registry office.
For foreigners who are located on the territory of Ukraine, MK:translations provides translation services from Estonian with further notarization.
Written translation into Estonian: features of the language
Linguists characterize Estonian as a language with a rich vocabulary. It’s abundantly saturated with industry terminology, therefore technical translation from Russian into Estonian requires not only linguistic knowledge, but also an understanding of specific terms and accurate selection of a counterpart in language pairs.
Literary translation is also specific: Estonians don’t like the loanwords, trying to preserve the purity of their native language this way. Therefore, Estonians form words by combining the basics, they also practice specific names for phenomena, for example, to describe the sound of rain or wind whistling.
The difficulty of accurate translation into Estonian is due to a number of peculiarities:
- one pronoun for HE, SHE and IT — that is, the absence of gender of nouns;
- there is no equivalent for the word “TO HAVE”;
- 14 grammatical cases;
- the temporal conjugation of verbs is only in the present and past tenses (not in the future one);
- the absence of prepositions.
There are about 10 dialects in Estonia, some of them are considerably different from each other, so translation work with Estonian is more difficult than, for example, translation into Swedish.
Given the subtleties and peculiarities of Estonian, we recommend entrusting translations to specialists who have practical skills in speaking and writing in this language. Using the services of translation agency MK:translations, you can be sure of the accuracy and correctness of the presentation of information, compliance with logic in the content and absence of grammatical and linguistic errors.
How to order a text translation into Estonian
MK:translations LSP performs translation into Estonian of any complexity, works with 80+ languages and dialects. You can find out the terms, prices and deadlines directly at the office in Kyiv, by phone or through the form on the company’s website. We provide information support at all stages of order fulfillment, guarantee quality and compliance with deadlines.
