Paste the email you cannot read. Get it back in yours, with the register intact, so you can tell whether it is a nudge or a warning.
Geachte heer,
Wij hebben uw offerte van 2 september in goede orde ontvangen.
Alvorens tot ondertekening over te gaan, wensen wij enige verduidelijking bij artikel 4.
Dear Sir,
We have received your quotation of 2 September.
Before signing, we would like some clarification on clause 4.
Not only the words, the distance they were sent at
Formal address forms
Conditional and subjunctive hedging
Set legal phrases
The sign-off
Belgian and Dutch business mail runs more formal than English-language equivalents. Read a literal translation as slightly warmer than the original probably was.
Whole thing, signature included. The sign-off is often where the register is hiding.
Formal Dutch and formal French carry a distance that a flat translation loses. It is the difference between a nudge and a warning.
Use the rewrite in another language tool for that half.
A signed document in a language you do not read is a job for a professional, not a paste box.
Belgian French and Belgian Dutch use forms that differ from the French and Dutch varieties, especially in legal and administrative wording.
If a line reads oddly literal, it probably was an idiom. Ask rather than assume.
One email at a time is fine. A mailbox that runs in three languages every day is the case Pidgy was built for.
of the workweek goes to reading and answering email, before any of the work inside it gets done.
McKinsey Global Institutea week on email for the heaviest email users, on top of everything else the job asks of them.
Microsoft Work Trend IndexYes. No account, ten runs a day, nothing you paste is stored.
The common European business languages are the reliable ones: Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish and English.
No. Use it to understand an email. Anything you are going to sign wants a professional translation.
Write the reply in yours and put it through the rewrite in another language tool.
Pidgy reads a mixed-language mailbox as a single inbox and drafts replies in the language each thread arrived in.
