# Translate questionnaires automatically

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This feature is available only to users with the "HR employee" access level. You only see it if content translation is enabled for your company.

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When employees take part in a feedback in several languages, every question text has to exist in every language. With automatic translation you maintain the questionnaire in one language only, the base language. When you change a text there and save it, easyreview translates it into the target languages you selected.

## Switch on automatic translation

1. [Open the settings of the feedback process](/en/c/feedbacks/review-settings).
2. In the "Additional functions" card, click "Set up" in the "Translations" row.
3. Tick the "Translate content automatically" checkbox.
4. Under "Base language", choose the language in which you maintain the content.
5. Under "Translate into", choose the languages easyreview should translate into.
6. Check the result sentence and click "Save" at the bottom of the page.

 ![Translations page with automatic translation switched on, German as base language and English and French as target languages](/attachments/feedbacks/fragebogen-automatisch-uebersetzen/uebersetzungen-seite.png)

The result sentence sums up your choice, for example "When content in German changes, it is translated into English and French." Afterwards, the "Translations" row in the settings overview reads, for example, "On · from German into English and French".

## What gets translated

easyreview translates what you change and save in the base language: question titles, hints, answer options and the other texts of the questionnaire. The translation runs in the background and is usually done after a short while. Placeholders such as \[Vorname\] are translated along, so they keep working in the target languages.

Texts that are already in the questionnaire are not translated retroactively when you switch the feature on. They are translated as soon as you change them in the base language. If a finished questionnaire should be translated completely, contact your easyreview representative.

The [performance questions](/en/c/feedbacks/configure-performance-questions) are an exception: when you save the translation settings, easyreview fills in their missing translations.

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Automatic translation overwrites the target languages. If you adjusted a text in a target language by hand, easyreview replaces it with the automatic translation again the next time the text changes in the base language. The questionnaire editor points this out as soon as you edit a language other than the base language.

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## Switch off automatic translation

On the "Translations" page, untick "Translate content automatically" and click "Save". Existing translations are kept. Changes in the base language are no longer translated afterwards; you then maintain the other languages yourself.