Written for Switzerland
de-CH, Swiss French, Swiss Italian, Romansh, Zurich and Bernese German. Your terminology and earlier translations are used.
Made in Switzerland
Translations that sound Swiss
Swiss Standard German, Swiss French and Swiss Italian, even Zurich and Bernese German: Supertext AI writes the way Switzerland reads, right inside your CMS, shop or PIM.
Swiss Standard German is not German from Germany
Websites in German-speaking Switzerland are written in Swiss Standard German (Schweizer Hochdeutsch, language code de-CH). It is standard German, but readers notice straight away when a text was written for Germany:
- No ß: Switzerland writes Strasse, gross and Grüsse, never Straße, groß or Grüße.
- Swiss words: Velo instead of Fahrrad, parkieren instead of parken, Spital instead of Krankenhaus, Rahm instead of Sahne, Billett instead of Fahrkarte.
- Numbers and prices: CHF 1’250.50, with an apostrophe between the thousands and a full stop for the decimals.
- Quotation marks: «Guillemets» instead of „German quotation marks“.
- Tone: formal Sie is the rule in business, but many brands address their customers with du. Both are a setting in Supertext.
Machine translation trained mostly on texts from Germany gets these wrong, and every ß or Fahrrad on a Swiss page costs trust. Supertext was built for Switzerland and writes de-CH by default.
Dialect when you want it
For a deliberately local tone, in a campaign, a social post or a newsletter, Supertext also writes Swiss German dialect: Zurich German and Bernese German. Hardly any other machine translation writes dialect.
Swiss French and Swiss Italian too
Switzerland has its own French and Italian: septante and nonante, natel, déjeuner at lunchtime, Swiss Italian administrative terms. Supertext translates into Swiss French and Swiss Italian, and into Romansh.
Why Swiss companies translate with Supertext
Translated in Switzerland
Your texts are processed in Switzerland, deleted after translation and never used to train AI models (paid plans).
A translator when it matters
Add a professional review by a Swiss translator, or order a human translation, from the same plugin.
In your system, in de-CH
The Supertext plugins translate where your content lives. Set the target language to de-CH once, and every translation is written in Swiss Standard German:
- CMS: TYPO3, WordPress, Drupal, Contao, Joomla, Neos, Craft CMS, Strapi and more
- Shops: Shopify, Magento, PrestaShop
- Product data: Akeneo, Pimcore, AtroPIM
- AI assistants: Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot with the Supertext Translation MCP
Step by step: a TYPO3 site in Swiss German in 10 minutes.
Questions
What is the language code for Swiss Standard German?
de-CH. Most systems call it German (Switzerland), often with the locale de_CH. In Supertext, de-CH is Swiss Standard German; Zurich German is gsw-u-sd-chzh and Bernese German gsw-u-sd-chbe.
Is Swiss Standard German the same as Swiss German?
No. Swiss Standard German is written standard German with Swiss spelling and words, used on websites, in documents and in the media. Swiss German (Schweizerdeutsch) is the spoken dialects, written mainly in informal and local communication.
Does DeepL write Swiss Standard German?
Since August 2026, DeepL offers Swiss Standard German as well. It does not write Swiss German dialect, Swiss French, Swiss Italian or Romansh, and processes texts outside Switzerland. See the comparison.
Can I keep one German version for Germany and one for Switzerland?
Yes. Add both languages (de-DE and de-CH) to your system and translate into each, or have Supertext adapt your German texts for Switzerland.
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