Van Dale Dictionaries at Mac App Store analyse

Put the Van Dale dictionaries to the test and find the dictionary that fits your needs. All of the headwords within one letter are available for free. This way, you can get a detailed grasp of the depth and the possibilities of each dictionary.

You can try and buy the following Van Dale dictionaries:

DIKKE VAN DALE 15
This 15th edition of the ‘Van Dale Great Dictionary of the Dutch language’ offers access to the riches of the Dutch language. Van Dale’s showpiece contains approximately 242,000 entries, 327,000 meanings and 140,000 examples – in the official Dutch spelling. In-depth texts with usefull facts add even more profundity and illustrations clarify 500 complicated words. Conjugations can be found for all of the verbs.

VAN DALE UNABRIDGED DICTIONARIES
Originally developed for professional users, these are our largest and most extensive (bilingual) dictionaries. With - on average - 100,000 headwords per direction and detailed description of words - including many examples and other contextual information - the answer to almost any question you might have about a language is within your reach.

Available languages: Dutch, English-Dutch/Dutch-English, French-Dutch/Dutch-French, German-Dutch/Dutch-German, Spanish-Dutch/Dutch-Spanish

VAN DALE CONCISE DICTIONARIES
Have a broad vocabulary, enabling you to correctly understand, speak or write a language. These dictionaries are recommended for studies, work and intensive home use. They contain on average 50,000 headwords per direction.

Available languages: Dutch, English-Dutch/Dutch-English, French-Dutch/Dutch-French, German-Dutch/Dutch-German, Spanish-Dutch/Dutch-Spanish

VAN DALE POCKET DICTIONARIES
Compact dictionaries, containing all basic information about a language. Because of their clear explanations and translations, with practical usage examples, these dictionaries are best suited for school and day-to-day use. On average 27,000 headwords per direction.

Available languages: Dutch, English-Dutch/Dutch-English, French-Dutch/Dutch-French, German-Dutch/Dutch-German, Spanish-Dutch/Dutch-Spanish, Italian-Dutch/Dutch-Italian


FEATURES
• Do a quick search on the meaning of a word or how to translate it - and know how to use it correctly
• Search for headwords or through the entire text of a dictionary
• Get a list of suggestions if you type in the wrong spelling
• Use wildcards to make your searches more effective: simply replace one or more letters with ? or *
• Search conjugated verbs and declined words (in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish)
• Listen to the correct pronunciation in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian - recorded by native speakers
• Your search history is saved and is easy to delete
• Add found words to your searchable favorites list
• Look up words from other apps, without leaving that app
• Use your voice to search for words.*)
• Additional tools: customize the font size, choose between a Dutch or an English interface, use a virtual keyboard
• These dictionaries have been created for Dutch-speaking users

> Please note that Family Sharing does not work with in-app purchases.


ABOUT VAN DALE
Van Dale Uitgevers is the leading and most authoritative publisher of dictionaries in the Netherlands and Belgium. Van Dale produces a wide and varied offering of dozens of language–related titles for effective language user support. With precision and respect, Van Dale describes language as thoroughly as possible, and not only Dutch, but foreign languages too.

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*) For OS X 10.9 and up. To use this feature, activate the Dictation & Speech option in System Preferences and choose the required languages. To use the dictation feature in your dictionary, press the Fn key twice, say a word and click Done.

In principle a good app but crashes

• ☆☆☆☆☆   eptepterectec 8 years ago

This app gets an “update” every month, usually in the form of one of their many dictionaries to test out. What it doesn’t get is an update to address bugs, e.g., when it routinely crashes in El Capitan when doing a full text search of the dictionary. The dictionary per se is a high-quality dictionary (I use the Dutch/English one), and it’s generally zippy and convenient to look things up if you’re translating, etc. If the app creator would address the crashing and other minor bugs, it would rate much higher than a 3 star app.

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