Form Language

Every form has a language setting that controls the default UI text shown to respondents — things like navigation buttons, validation errors, and file upload prompts. This doesn’t translate your own questions or content, just the built-in interface elements.

Setting the form language

  1. Open your form and go to the Edit tab
  2. Click the More menu (the three-dot icon)
  3. Choose Settings
  4. Select a language from the Form language dropdown
  5. Click Publish to make the change live

What it affects

The form language setting translates the following built-in UI elements:

  • Navigation buttons — Back, Next, Submit
  • Validation messages — “Field is required”, “Invalid email address”, and other error messages
  • File upload prompts — “Choose file”, accepted formats, size limits, and upload errors
  • Input labels — “Other” for other-option fields, “Drag to reorder” for ranking fields, “Clear all”
  • Default success message — the built-in “Thanks for completing this form!” heading

Your own form content — questions, headings, descriptions, and custom end pages — stays exactly as you wrote it.

Supported languages

Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

Tips

  • Use the preview to verify that translated buttons and messages look right in context
  • If you need a language that isn’t listed, let us know and we’ll look into adding it