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English to Kannada translator

English to Kannada translation for Bengaluru notices and messages to friends

Type or paste your English, then pick the register. Formal addresses the reader as ನೀವು and gives polite commands such as ಬನ್ನಿ and ಬಳಸಿ; it is the right choice for an apartment notice, an office email or a message to someone older. Informal uses ನೀನು and the short commands ಬಾ and ಬಳಸು, which is how you would write to a friend from college. In Kannada the choice changes the verbs as well as the pronoun, so make it before you translate.

Further down are two English to Kannada translations from this page, a lift maintenance notice for an apartment block and a plan to ride to Nandi Hills before dawn, printed exactly as they came back. Each is followed by what a Kannada reader would keep and what they would change. After that come the differences between written Kannada and the Kannada spoken in Bengaluru, and how notices handle English words like lift and block.

Should a Kannada translation use ನೀವು or ನೀನು?

Use ನೀವು for anyone you would not speak to casually: elders, customers, neighbours reading a notice, teachers and people you have just met. It is also the plural, so it covers a whole group. ನೀನು is for close friends, siblings and people younger than you. Choose Formal for ನೀವು or Informal for ನೀನು before translating, because the verb endings change with it.

Real English to Kannada translations from this page

Each one was run through the translator above and printed exactly as it came back, with a note on what to look for.

An apartment association maintenance notice

English47 words

Dear residents, the lifts in Block B will be under maintenance on Sunday from 9 am to 1 pm. Please use the stairs or the lifts in Block A during this time. Senior citizens who need help may contact the security desk. Thank you for your patience.

Kannada · Formal32 words

ಪ್ರಿಯ ನಿವಾಸಿಗಳೇ, ಬ್ಲಾಕ್ Bಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಲಿಫ್ಟ್‌ಗಳು ಭಾನುವಾರ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ 9ರಿಂದ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ 1ರವರೆಗೆ ನಿರ್ವಹಣಾ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಸ್ಥಗಿತಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆ. ಈ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಮೆಟ್ಟಿಲುಗಳನ್ನು ಅಥವಾ ಬ್ಲಾಕ್ Aಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಲಿಫ್ಟ್‌ಗಳನ್ನು ಬಳಸಿ. ಸಹಾಯದ ಅಗತ್ಯವಿರುವ ಹಿರಿಯ ನಾಗರಿಕರು ಭದ್ರತಾ ಕಚೇರಿಯನ್ನು ಸಂಪರ್ಕಿಸಬಹುದು. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸಹನೆಗೆ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು.

Translated by this tool on 30 September 2026 and printed unedited.

This is a correct, polite notice. It opens with ಪ್ರಿಯ ನಿವಾಸಿಗಳೇ, 'dear residents', in the form used to call on people directly, and the request ಬಳಸಿ, 'please use', is the respectful command. So the notice treats everyone as ನೀವು without printing the pronoun until ನಿಮ್ಮ in the last line. ಸ್ಥಗಿತಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆ, 'will be out of service', is a formal verb that suits a notice.
Lift and block stayed as the English loans ಲಿಫ್ಟ್ and ಬ್ಲಾಕ್, which is what residents say, while the block letters were left in Latin script with a Kannada ending: Bಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ, Aಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ. That mix reads fine; if you want the whole notice in Kannada script, ಬ್ಲಾಕ್ ಬಿಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ says the same thing.
'Security desk' became ಭದ್ರತಾ ಕಚೇರಿ, literally 'security office'. It is understood, but residents looking for help will be looking for the guards on duty rather than an office, so ಭದ್ರತಾ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ, 'security staff', may say it more plainly.
Times are handled well: ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ 9ರಿಂದ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ 1ರವರೆಗೆ puts the case endings straight onto the digits, 'from 9 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon'. The closing ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸಹನೆಗೆ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು is a faithful 'thank you for your patience'; Kannada notices more often end with ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸಹಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು, 'thank you for your cooperation', which you could use instead.

A text to a friend about weekend plans

English40 words

Macha, shall we go to Nandi Hills on Saturday morning? If we leave by 5 we can see the sunrise. I'll take my bike, you come with me. After that we'll have breakfast at that dosa place near the highway.

Kannada · Informal27 words

ಮಚ್ಚಾ, ಶನಿವಾರ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ನಂದಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟಗಳಿಗೆ ಹೋಗೋಣವಾ? ಐದು ಗಂಟೆಗೆ ಹೊರಟರೆ ಸೂರ್ಯೋದಯ ನೋಡಬಹುದು. ನಾನು ಬೈಕ್ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಬರುತ್ತೀನಿ, ನೀನು ನನ್ನ ಜೊತೆ ಬಾ. ಆಮೇಲೆ ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ ಹತ್ತಿರದ ಆ ದೋಸೆ ಅಂಗಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಉಪಾಹಾರ ಮಾಡೋಣ.

Translated by this tool on 30 September 2026 and printed unedited.

ಮಚ್ಚಾ stayed as it was, which is right: it is the same slang in a Kannada chat as in the English, and a translated word would have lost the tone. The verbs are spoken forms too, ಹೋಗೋಣವಾ ('shall we go?'), ಬರುತ್ತೀನಿ ('I'll come') and ಮಾಡೋಣ ('let's have'), with ನೀನು and the plain command ಬಾ for the friend.
Nandi Hills became ನಂದಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟಗಳಿಗೆ, 'to the Nandi hills', with a plural. Kannada speakers call the place ನಂದಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟ in the singular, so ನಂದಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟಕ್ಕೆ is what a Bengaluru friend would write. The plural copies the English name.
The nouns are more formal than the verbs. ಉಪಾಹಾರ is correct but belongs to written Kannada; between friends breakfast is ತಿಂಡಿ, so ತಿಂಡಿ ತಿನ್ನೋಣ would sound more natural than ಉಪಾಹಾರ ಮಾಡೋಣ. ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ and ಸೂರ್ಯೋದಯ are also correct but bookish, and many friends would simply type highway and sunrise.
ದೋಸೆ is the normal Kannada spelling of dosa, ಬೈಕ್ was kept as the English loan, and 'if we leave by 5' became ಐದು ಗಂಟೆಗೆ ಹೊರಟರೆ, 'if we leave at five o'clock', with the number written as a word. The meaning of every sentence came through.

ನೀವು and ನೀನು in English to Kannada translation

Kannada has two words for 'you'. ನೀವು is respectful and plural; ನೀನು is familiar and singular. A notice to residents, a letter to a landlord and a message to your friend's parents all take ನೀವು. ನೀನು belongs to friends, siblings and younger people, and using it with a stranger sounds rude rather than friendly.

The verb carries the choice even when the pronoun is left out, which is how the maintenance notice manages to be polite without saying ನೀವು once in its request.

English	Formal (ನೀವು)	Informal (ನೀನು)
Come.	ಬನ್ನಿ	ಬಾ
Please use the stairs.	ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಮೆಟ್ಟಿಲುಗಳನ್ನು ಬಳಸಿ.	ಮೆಟ್ಟಿಲುಗಳನ್ನು ಬಳಸು.
Will you come tomorrow?	ನೀವು ನಾಳೆ ಬರುತ್ತೀರಾ?	ನೀನು ನಾಳೆ ಬರುತ್ತೀಯಾ?
Don't be late.	ತಡ ಮಾಡಬೇಡಿ.	ತಡ ಮಾಡಬೇಡ.
your	ನಿಮ್ಮ	ನಿನ್ನ

Respect reaches people you talk about, too. Kannada adds ಅವರು after a name to show respect, as in ರಮೇಶ್ ಅವರು, where English would use Mr. or simply the name. If your English mentions a manager or an older relative by name, check that the Kannada treats them with the same respect you would.

Written Kannada and the Kannada spoken in Bengaluru

Written Kannada, in notices, newspapers and letters, keeps long verb endings. Spoken Kannada, especially around Bengaluru, shortens them, and chat messages follow speech. The notice sample stays fully written; the Nandi Hills sample uses spoken verbs with written nouns, which is why it reads a little stiff in places.

English	Written Kannada	Spoken Kannada
I will come	ಬರುತ್ತೇನೆ	ಬರ್ತೀನಿ
I am doing	ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನೆ	ಮಾಡ್ತಿದ್ದೀನಿ
Shall we go?	ಹೋಗೋಣವೇ?	ಹೋಗೋಣವಾ?
if we leave	ಹೊರಟರೆ	ಹೊರಟ್ರೆ
breakfast	ಉಪಾಹಾರ	ತಿಂಡಿ

The sample's ಬರುತ್ತೀನಿ sits between the two columns: a spoken ending on the full written stem. Friends read it without trouble. If you want the full Bengaluru sound, click the sentence to see up to three other wordings, and keep one style for every verb in the message.

Macha, dosa and the words a Kannada chat keeps

Slang in the English should usually stay slang in the Kannada. ಮಚ್ಚಾ and ಮಗಾ are what friends in Bengaluru call each other, and the translator kept Macha because the English used it. Food and place words work the same way: ದೋಸೆ is Kannada already, and so is ಬೆಟ್ಟ, the hill in ನಂದಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟ.

What gives a machine away in a Kannada chat is not the slang but the formal nouns around it. The Nandi Hills sample got the tone right with ಮಚ್ಚಾ and ಹೋಗೋಣವಾ and then used ಉಪಾಹಾರ for breakfast and ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ for highway. Neither is wrong; both belong in a newspaper. If a word like that stands out, replace it with the one your friends use: ತಿಂಡಿ, or simply the English word highway written as ಹೈವೇ.

Place names deserve a second look for the same reason. English names that end in Hills, Falls or Gardens are often singular or quite different in Kannada, and a translation that follows the English form, as ನಂದಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟಗಳು did, reads as foreign to someone who has been going there all their life.

Notices in Bengaluru apartments: English loans, block letters and the closing line

Residents' notices in Bengaluru mix Kannada grammar with English building words. Lift, block, security, maintenance and parking are understood by everyone and are often clearer than a Kannada coinage. The sample kept ಲಿಫ್ಟ್ and ಬ್ಲಾಕ್ but translated maintenance as ನಿರ್ವಹಣಾ ಕಾರ್ಯ and security desk as ಭದ್ರತಾ ಕಚೇರಿ; both are correct, and both are more formal than what residents say.

A notice in a building where not every resident reads Kannada usually goes up in Kannada and English side by side. If yours will, translate the Kannada version on Formal, keep block letters, flat numbers and times identical in both, and download the Kannada as a Word file to place next to the English. These are the phrases most residents' notices need:

English	Kannada	Note
Notice (heading)	ಸೂಚನೆ	Goes at the top, above the date
Dear residents	ಪ್ರಿಯ ನಿವಾಸಿಗಳೇ	As in the sample
Please use ...	ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ... ಬಳಸಿ	Respectful command
Senior citizens	ಹಿರಿಯ ನಾಗರಿಕರು	As in the sample
Security staff	ಭದ್ರತಾ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ	Instead of ಭದ್ರತಾ ಕಚೇರಿ
Thank you for your cooperation	ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸಹಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು	The usual closing line

Numbers stay as digits with Kannada endings attached, as in 9ರಿಂದ and 1ರವರೆಗೆ. Kannada has its own digits too (೧, ೨, ೩), but ordinary digits are what most notices and messages use, and both samples follow that.

Mistakes to check before you send

ನೀನು on a notice

Informal on a notice to residents or a letter to a landlord reads as rude. Use Formal so every command takes the polite form, like ಬಳಸಿ and ಬನ್ನಿ.

Place names made plural

Nandi Hills came out as ನಂದಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟಗಳು. Check English place names ending in Hills, Falls or Gardens against the name locals use, which is often singular.

Newspaper words in a chat

ಉಪಾಹಾರ, ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ and ಸೂರ್ಯೋದಯ are correct but formal. In a message to a friend, ತಿಂಡಿ, highway and sunrise are what people type.

Written and spoken endings mixed

If one sentence ends in ಬರುತ್ತೇನೆ and the next in ಬರ್ತೀನಿ, the message sounds uneven. Pick one style and apply it to every verb.

Block letters, flat numbers and times that differ

Check that every block letter, flat number and time in the Kannada matches the English exactly. The sample kept them all, but a figure that changes between two versions of a notice sends residents to the wrong lift.

A name spelled two ways

Kannada writes English names by sound, so a person's name or an apartment complex's name can come out spelled differently in two runs. Select it and press Keep so it stays as written.

Rental agreements, property papers, court documents and anything submitted to a government office in Karnataka should go to a qualified Kannada translator; this page is suited to notices, emails and messages, and to understanding what you receive.

English to Kannada translation questions

How do you write 'Dear residents' in Kannada?

ಪ್ರಿಯ ನಿವಾಸಿಗಳೇ, as in the notice sample above. The -ಏ ending is the form used to call on people directly. ಆತ್ಮೀಯ ನಿವಾಸಿಗಳೇ is another common opening with a warmer tone.

What is the Kannada word for breakfast?

ತಿಂಡಿ in everyday speech, as in ತಿಂಡಿ ಆಯ್ತಾ?, 'have you had breakfast?'. ಉಪಾಹಾರ, which the translator used in the Nandi Hills sample, is the formal word and fits written Kannada better than a chat.

Is macha a Kannada word?

It is slang used among friends in Bengaluru, alongside ಮಗಾ. You would not put it in a letter, but in a chat it belongs, which is why the translator left ಮಚ್ಚಾ as it was.

Why does my Kannada translation sound formal even on Informal?

Informal changes the pronoun and the verbs, but some nouns still come out in their written form, like ಉಪಾಹಾರ and ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ in the sample. Click the sentence to see up to three other wordings, or replace the word with the everyday one yourself.

Does Kannada have its own numbers?

Yes, ೦ to ೯, but most notices, bills and messages use ordinary digits, as both samples here do. Case endings attach straight to the digit: 9ರಿಂದ means 'from 9' and 1ರವರೆಗೆ 'until 1'.

Can a Telugu speaker read Kannada?

The two scripts look alike because they grew from the same older script, and many letters are close in shape, but they are separate languages with their own vocabulary. A Telugu reader will recognise some words, not the whole text. Use the English to Telugu page if your reader is Telugu-speaking.

How do I check a Kannada translation before sending it?

Press Use as source to put the Kannada into the input box, translate it back into English and compare the meaning with your original. For a notice, also check that every time, block letter and phone number is identical in both versions.

Written and checked by the AI Writing Assistant team. Last reviewed 30 September 2026.