Translate English into Sinhala (සිංහල) the way a Sri Lankan would actually say it - polite at the temple, friendly at the tea kade, professional at the office. Frontier AI, full Sinhala script support, free for everyday use.
Sinhala is spoken by around 17 million people, almost all of them on the island of Sri Lanka - and increasingly by a vibrant diaspora across Australia, the UK, Canada and the Middle East. Pairing it with English unlocks everything from Yala safari bookings and Ceylon tea export quotes to government circulars, Buddhist sermons and family voice notes home. translator.im handles all of it - full Sinhala script, both formal and spoken registers - with one quietly excellent answer.
Quick reference for travel in Sri Lanka, greetings, the tea kade and everyday conversation. Tap any row to copy it into the translator above.
Built on frontier translation models tuned for South Asian languages, including Sinhala's distinctive script and its split between formal and spoken registers. No clunky word-for-word output - just Sinhala that reads naturally.
Modern AI models that understand idioms, register and paragraph-level context - not isolated sentences. Honorific endings and Buddhist religious vocabulary are handled with care.
Round letters, vowel signs (පිලි), conjunct consonants and modern punctuation all render correctly. Output is ready to paste into Word, Pages, Notion or InDesign without broken glyphs.
Switch to Voice mode and just talk - your browser's speech recognition (Chrome, Edge or Safari) types your English for you. Tap Listen to hear the Sinhala read aloud if your device has a Sinhala voice. Handy with a three-wheeler driver in Kandy.
Upload, drop or paste a photo or screenshot of English a Galle Fort café menu, a road sign or a form. The text is recognised in your browser, you can tweak it, and the Sinhala translation comes back as editable text.
Paste up to 5,000 characters of English at a time - e-commerce or tourism copy - and get Sinhala back with your paragraph breaks in place.
Open the page and start translating - no account, no download, no credit card. You get 10 free translations a day, and our privacy policy explains how requests are handled.
Whether you are hiking up Adam's Peak, sending money home from Dubai, exporting Ceylon tea, or preparing a Vesak sermon - translator.im fits the moment.
Order kottu and hoppers, ask for directions to Sigiriya, and understand temple etiquette without freezing up. Image mode reads printed menus and bus boards from a photo.
Send Sinhala/Tamil New Year greetings to amma, Vesak wishes to thaththa, and voice-note replies to relatives in Colombo, Kandy or the Gulf.
Translate quotations, shipping docs and contracts for Ceylon tea, apparel orders and Colombo's growing IT/BPO sector. Keep formal business register intact.
Translate dhamma talks, pirith pamphlets and temple announcements from English into clear, respectful Sinhala suitable for sangha and lay readers alike.
Three small habits that make AI translation feel hand-written by a Colombo copywriter.
Sinhala is diglossic - the formal written language (ලිඛිත සිංහල) used in newspapers, government and books differs noticeably from everyday spoken Sinhala (කථන සිංහල) heard on the street. Prefix your request with 'Translate to formal written Sinhala' or 'Translate to spoken Sinhala' so the model picks the right register.
Sinhala verb endings shift with tense, politeness and subject. Giving the model a complete sentence - not just "tell amma food ready" - lets it pick the right verb form and honorific level.
Names of people, products, hotels and tech terms usually stay in Latin script (or transliterated). translator.im will keep them intact unless you specifically ask for them in Sinhala letters.
No account, no install, no waiting. Drop your English in and read it back in Sinhala in seconds.