Idiomatic Marathi (मराठी) in proper Devanagari, not word-for-word. Paste up to 2,000 words at a time. Free with no signup and no card: 3 translations a day without an account, 5 a day on a free one.
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Both use Devanagari, so tools trained mostly on Hindi tend to produce Marathi that is grammatical but subtly off. These are the three places it usually goes wrong.
Hindi has masculine and feminine. Marathi adds neuter, and a large share of everyday nouns take it. Adjectives and verbs agree, so picking the wrong gender does not just sound foreign, it changes the endings across the whole sentence. This is the single most common tell in Hindi-trained Marathi output.
आपण includes the person you are speaking to. आम्ही excludes them. English "we" is ambiguous, so this has to be inferred from context. "We built this for you" needs आम्ही. "Let's get started" needs आपण. Swapping them is grammatical and immediately reads wrong to a native speaker.
Marathi Devanagari includes ळ, a retroflex L absent from standard Hindi, and it appears in very ordinary words. If a block of Marathi text contains no ळ at all, that is usually a sign it was routed through a Hindi model rather than written as Marathi.
Formality runs on the same three-step ladder as Hindi, तू to तुम्ही to आपण, but आपण doing double duty as both the polite "you" and the inclusive "we" means context decides which one a reader hears.
Every line below is real output from this translator, run twice on the same English input: once with Marathi as the target, once with Hindi. Nothing here is hand-written. Read down the two columns and the differences stop being abstract.
| English | Marathi | Hindi | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| This is a big house. | हे एक मोठे घर आहे. | यह एक बड़ा घर है। | घर is neuter in Marathi and masculine in Hindi, so the adjective lands on मोठे, not मोठा. |
| My letter arrived yesterday. | माझे पत्र काल आले. | मेरा पत्र कल आया। | One neuter noun pulls both the possessive and the verb with it: माझे and आले against मेरा and आया. |
| The work is finished. | काम पूर्ण झाले आहे. | काम पूरा हो गया है। | Same noun, same meaning, different ending. झाले agrees with neuter काम. |
| This water is very clean. | हे पाणी खूप स्वच्छ आहे. | यह पानी बहुत साफ है। | Even "this" carries gender. Neuter हे where Hindi uses यह. |
| The children are playing in the garden in the morning. | मुले सकाळी बागेत खेळत आहेत. | बच्चे सुबह बगीचे में खेल रहे हैं। | Two ळ in one short sentence, in सकाळी and खेळत. The Hindi line has none, because standard Hindi has no ळ. |
| The book is on the table. | पुस्तक टेबलावर आहे. | किताब मेज पर है। | Marathi fuses the postposition onto the noun as टेबलावर. Hindi keeps मेज पर as two words. |
| We built this tool for you. | हे साधन आम्ही तुमच्यासाठी बनवले आहे. | हमने यह टूल आपके लिए बनाया है। | आम्ही is the exclusive "we", correct here because the reader did not help build it. Hindi has only हम. |
| Let us begin now. | आता सुरुवात करूया. | अब शुरू करते हैं। | करूया is the inclusive form, the one that pairs with आपण. Using आम्ही here would shut the reader out of the thing you are inviting them into. |
Eight sentences, and the two languages diverge on gender, on the alphabet, on where the postposition goes, and on who "we" includes. That is the gap a Hindi-first translator quietly papers over.
Marathi nouns are masculine, feminine, or neuter. Whatever the noun is, the words around it have to match. Get the noun's gender wrong and the error spreads outward through the adjective and the verb, which is why one bad guess can wreck an entire sentence.
| Gender | "this" | "big" | "came" | Exists in Hindi? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masculine | हा | मोठा | आला | Yes |
| Feminine | ही | मोठी | आली | Yes |
| Neuter | हे | मोठे | आले | No |
The failure mode is not exotic. A model that has learned घर is masculine, which it is in Hindi, will reach for the masculine ending and produce something a Marathi speaker reads as foreign on the first word.
| English | Hindi-pattern ending | Correct Marathi |
|---|---|---|
| a big house | मोठा घर | मोठे घर |
| my letter came | माझा पत्र आला | माझे पत्र आले |
| the work is finished | काम पूर्ण झाला | काम पूर्ण झाले |
Notice how little changes on the page and how much changes to the ear. One vowel at the end of one word, and the sentence stops sounding like Marathi. The right column in that table is what this translator produced when we ran those sentences; the left column is the shape you get when a Hindi gender assignment carries over.
The other split has nothing to do with endings. English "we" is one word doing two jobs, and Marathi refuses to collapse them.
"We built this tool for you." came back as हे साधन आम्ही तुमच्यासाठी बनवले आहे. आम्ही is right, because the reader is the person it was built for, not one of the builders. Put आपण there and you have accidentally credited your reader with writing your software.
"Let us begin now." came back as आता सुरुवात करूया. This is the opposite case. करूया is the inclusive form, the one that belongs with आपण, and the whole point of the sentence is that the reader is coming along. An exclusive "we" here would be grammatical and would read as though you were starting without them.
No amount of grammar checking catches this, because both versions are correct Marathi. It is a meaning error, not a form error, and the only fix is knowing which one the English sentence intended. When a translation matters, this is the second thing to check after the gender endings.
All thirty were produced by the translator on this page, not copied from a phrasebook. The third column is a plain romanized reading, so you can pronounce a line even if you do not read Devanagari yet.
| English | Marathi | Read it as |
|---|---|---|
| Good morning | सुप्रभात | suprabhat |
| Good night | शुभ रात्री | shubh ratri |
| Thank you very much | खूप खूप धन्यवाद | khup khup dhanyavad |
| How are you? | तुम्ही कसे आहात? | tumhi kase aahat? |
| I am fine | मी ठीक आहे | mi thik aahe |
| What is your name? | तुमचे नाव काय आहे? | tumche naav kaay aahe? |
| My name is Ravi | माझे नाव रवी आहे | majhe naav Ravi aahe |
| Nice to meet you | तुम्हाला भेटून आनंद झाला | tumhala bhetun aanand jhala |
| Please help me | कृपया माझी मदत करा | krupaya majhi madat kara |
| I do not understand | मला समजत नाही | mala samajat nahi |
| Do you speak English? | तुम्हाला इंग्रजी बोलता येते का? | tumhala ingraji bolta yete ka? |
| How much does this cost? | याची किंमत किती आहे? | yachi kimmat kiti aahe? |
| Where is the railway station? | रेल्वे स्थानक कुठे आहे? | relve sthanak kuthe aahe? |
| I am hungry | मला भूक लागली आहे | mala bhuk lagli aahe |
| I want some water | मला थोडे पाणी हवे आहे | mala thode paani have aahe |
| See you tomorrow | उद्या भेटू | udya bhetu |
| Happy birthday | वाढदिवसाच्या शुभेच्छा | vaadhdivsachya shubhechha |
| Congratulations | अभिनंदन | abhinandan |
| I am sorry | मला माफ करा | mala maaf kara |
| No problem | काही हरकत नाही | kahi harkat nahi |
| Let us go | चला जाऊया | chala jauya |
| Come here | इकडे या | ikde ya |
| Wait a minute | एक मिनिट थांबा | ek minit thamba |
| What is the time? | किती वाजले आहेत? | kiti vajle aahet? |
| I love you | मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो | mi tujhyavar prem karto |
| Take care of yourself | स्वतःची काळजी घ्या | svatahchi kaalji ghya |
| Welcome | स्वागत आहे | svagat aahe |
| Excuse me | माफ करा | maaf kara |
| Have a safe journey | सुखरूप प्रवास करा | sukharoop pravaas kara |
| Best wishes to your family | तुमच्या कुटुंबाला शुभेच्छा | tumchya kutumbala shubhechha |
Two things in that list are worth pausing on. "I love you" came back as मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो, and करतो is the ending a male speaker uses; a woman saying the same thing says करते. Marathi marks the speaker's gender on the verb, so a first-person sentence that fits one person may need one letter changed for another. And "Take care of yourself" contains काळजी, one of those very ordinary words carrying the ळ that standard Hindi does not have.
The romanizations are a pronunciation aid, not a standard. Marathi has no single official romanization scheme, so you will see शुभेच्छा written as shubhechha, shubhecha, and subhecha across the internet, all pointing at the same word.
Marathi is written in Devanagari, the same script as Hindi and Sanskrit, plus the extra consonant ळ. It is a proper Unicode script, so Marathi text is real text: searchable, selectable, and safe to paste into a document, an email, a spreadsheet cell, or a form field. It is not an image and it is not a legacy font hack.
That is the practical answer for most people who arrive looking for a way to "type in Marathi". You type an English sentence with the keyboard you already have, and the output box gives you Devanagari you can copy. If you need a Marathi sentence for a message, a caption, a card, or a form, this is the shortest route to one.
What this tool does not do is transliterate. It translates meaning. Typing mala bhuk lagli will not produce मला भूक लागली letter by letter, because that is a spelling conversion rather than a translation, and it is not something we have built. Type the English sentence instead, "I am hungry", and you will get the Marathi. If you specifically want to read romanized Marathi rather than write it, the phrase table above pairs every line with a romanized reading.
Empty rectangles, sometimes called tofu, mean the device is missing a Devanagari font rather than that the translation failed. Modern Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android all ship one, so this mostly turns up on older systems, on stripped-down Linux installs, and inside apps that force a font with no Devanagari coverage. Installing a Devanagari font such as Noto Sans Devanagari fixes it. The text itself was never damaged; copy it somewhere else and it will render.
A related snag is spacing. Devanagari stacks consonants into conjuncts and hangs marks above and below the line, so Marathi needs a little more vertical room than Latin text at the same size. If a line looks clipped in a design, the fix is line height, not a different translation.
The uncomfortable part of using any translator is that you often cannot judge the result, which is the reason you needed it. Three habits catch most of the damage. Round-trip it: press the swap button and translate the Marathi back into English, and if it comes home meaning roughly the same thing you are on solid ground. Scan for ळ: a longer Marathi passage with none at all is worth a second look. And before anything gets published, signed, or printed, have a Marathi speaker read it, because a translator is a draft and a fluent reader is the proof.
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Yes. Output is rendered in proper Devanagari script (मराठी). Copy the result and paste it into any document, email, social platform, or chat — the script renders correctly anywhere modern Unicode is supported (which is essentially everywhere in 2026).
Usually, and it is the first thing worth checking. Marathi has three genders where Hindi has two, and tools trained mainly on Hindi tend to push neuter nouns into masculine or feminine. Because adjectives and verbs agree with the noun, a single wrong gender changes endings across the whole sentence. Scan the agreement before you publish.
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Not in the sense of a transliteration keyboard. This tool translates meaning, so you type an English sentence and get Marathi in Devanagari back. It does not convert romanized spellings like "mala bhuk lagli" into मला भूक लागली letter by letter. If romanized Marathi is what you want to read rather than write, the common-phrases table above lists each Marathi phrase with a romanized reading beside it.
They share the Devanagari script and a lot of vocabulary, which is exactly why Hindi-trained output passes for Marathi at a glance. Three things separate them. Marathi has a neuter gender that Hindi does not, so adjective and verb endings differ across whole sentences. Marathi uses the letter ळ, which standard Hindi does not have. And Marathi fuses postpositions onto the noun where Hindi keeps them separate, so "on the table" is टेबलावर in Marathi and मेज पर in Hindi.
Standard written Marathi, the register you would see in a newspaper, a formal letter, or a textbook. It is not tuned for regional varieties such as Varhadi or Malvani, so if you need a specific dialect treat the output as a starting draft and have a speaker of that variety adjust it.
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