Le Grand Robert & Collins 2016 at Mac App Store analyse

The most comprehensive French-English/English-French bilingual dictionary on your Mac.
The essential reference tool for all specialists in French, now in a new edition with enhanced search functionality.
Le Grand Robert & Collins, now even more powerful and user-friendly, makes searching for the best translation a simpler, faster process that takes into account the context of the phrase, the cultural background and the idiomatic senses of the word in question, allowing you to express yourself with ease.

1/ The most comprehensive bilingual dictionary for Mac

The most comprehensive up-to-date dictionary
- 1.2 million words, phrases and translations
- 7,000 new items, reflecting the most recent developments in English and French
- New words, set expressions and translations from fields including technology, the environment, economics, law, society, informal language and many more

Added digital content for reliable translations every time
- two synonym dictionaries, one for each language
- a bilingual business dictionary containing 15,000 terms from the business world
- 100,000 audio pronunciations: the most complete database of pronunciations for Mac, with pronunciations given for 85,000 English words and 15,000 French words
- Full conjugations of all English and French verbs in all modes and tenses
- 800 notes on translation pitfalls

Extra cultural information
- 300 explanatory notes on items relating to the institutions, culture and politics of the English- and French-speaking worlds

Communication help
- A conversation guide

2/ High-performance functionality

Intelligent searching


- An autocomplete function predicts your search query as soon as you type the first few letters and autocorrects typos and spelling mistakes
- A powerful search engine provides instant access to all the translations of a word, a compound noun, a phrase or an expression
- Search results are clearly presented according to category: words, compound words, phrases and set expressions, phrasal verbs, examples and extra translation suggestions

Full hypertext for optimized browsing
- Every word in both languages has a clickable link

A new interface – easier to read and more intuitive

- Enhanced readability thanks to an optimized interface and screen layout

Essential office tools
- Choice of interface language: French or English
- Look-up function allows you to search for a word or phrase within the current entry
- Word-processing functions: copy an entry, print it, zoom in or out, browse the look-up history

Instant access to online help directly from the application.

3/ Minimum system requirements

- Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11
- Disk space: 828 MB
- Screen resolution 1024 x 768 or higher