English to Urdu translation on your phone: sentences, photos and Roman Urdu
By the Sitey team · · 4 min read
Type, paste or say a sentence in English, or take a photo of a letter, a sign or a menu, and the free Sitey app gives it back in Urdu, Roman Urdu or English. It translates the meaning the way people say it in Pakistan, not word for word. This guide shows a real result, the everyday phrases people look up most, the one thing to check in every Urdu translation, and the limits.
A real result, unedited
We typed one WhatsApp-style message into the app's translator on a tablet and asked for Urdu, then Roman Urdu:
Please send me the location. I will reach in 20 minutes, and bring the cake with you.براہ کرم مجھے مقام بھیج دیں۔ میں 20 منٹ میں پہنچ جاؤں گا، اور کیک بھی ساتھ لے آنا۔Please mujhe location bhej dein. Main 20 minute mein pahunch jaunga, aur cake bhi saath le aana.
Two things to notice. The Roman Urdu keeps everyday English words like location and cake, the way people actually type on WhatsApp. And the app wrote pahunch jaunga, the form a man uses, because the English gave no clue who was speaking. That is the one thing to check.
The one thing to check: who is speaking, and to whom
English verbs are the same for everyone; Urdu ones are not. A man says main aa raha hoon, a woman main aa rahi hoon. You ask a man aap kaise hain? and a woman aap kaisi hain? That is why so many people search for “… meaning in urdu female”. Any translator, Sitey's included, has to guess when the English doesn't say. Read the endings (gaa / gi, raha / rahi, kaise / kaisi) and change them if the guess is wrong.
Everyday phrases and their meaning in Urdu
The phrases people in Pakistan look up most, written by the Sitey team, with Roman Urdu under each. Where a man and a woman say it differently, both are here.
How are you? (to a man)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Aap kaise hain?
How are you? (to a woman)
آپ کیسی ہیں؟
Aap kaisi hain?
I am fine
میں ٹھیک ہوں۔
Main theek hoon.
The same for a man or a woman.
What are you doing? (to a man)
آپ کیا کر رہے ہیں؟
Aap kya kar rahe hain?
What are you doing? (to a woman)
آپ کیا کر رہی ہیں؟
Aap kya kar rahi hain?
I miss you
مجھے آپ کی یاد آتی ہے۔
Mujhe aap ki yaad aati hai.
The same whoever says it, to whoever.
You are very special to me
آپ میرے لیے بہت خاص ہیں۔
Aap mere liye bohat khaas hain.
I'll be there in 10 minutes (a man says)
میں دس منٹ میں پہنچ جاؤں گا۔
Main das minute mein pahunch jaunga.
I'll be there in 10 minutes (a woman says)
میں دس منٹ میں پہنچ جاؤں گی۔
Main das minute mein pahunch jaungi.
Take care
اپنا خیال رکھیں۔
Apna khayal rakhein.
Have you eaten?
کھانا کھا لیا؟
Khana kha liya?
How people really ask it at home, not word for word.
Get well soon
اللہ آپ کو جلد صحت دے۔
Allah aap ko jald sehat de.
Said as a dua, the way it is said in Pakistan.
Translate in the app, step by step
- Open Sitey and type translate in the search box at the top of the home screen. Tap Translator.
- Under Translate into, pick Urdu, English or Roman Urdu.
- Type or paste the text (up to 3,000 characters, about a page), tap the microphone to say it, or use Camera or Photo for a letter, sign, notice, menu or message screenshot.
- Tap Translate. Then Copy, send it on WhatsApp, or Ask Sitey AI about it if you want it explained or rewritten.
Watch how it works: a short video
The video shows this tool in the free Sitey app. Open on YouTube
The limits, plainly
- 15 translations a day in the app, each up to 3,000 characters. The screen shows how many are left today.
- It needs the internet: the translation is made on Sitey's server by Claude, an AI from Anthropic. A photo is sent once for that answer and is not kept.
- Names, phone numbers, amounts, dates and addresses are kept exactly as written.
- AI can be wrong. Use it to understand a legal or medical paper, then check anything important with someone who knows.
- No app? The translator on the website is free to try, typed text only; the Sitey app gives 15 a day and reads photos.
