Svensk ordbok

Svenska Akademien Appar

About this app

Ordboksappen mirrors the contents of Swedish Dictionary published by the Swedish Academy which came out in print in 2009. The dictionary is a detailed description of the general vocabulary of modern Swedish. The emphasis is on the meaning of words and use in combination with historical data.

The app is based on the lexical database developed and further developed at the Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg. It includes:

• 65 000 entries with detailed descriptions importance
• 100,000 linguistic examples and idioms 5000
• pronunciations data and recorded pronunciations
• details of the part of speech and inflection, word formation and ordled
• information about the Order's style and bruklighet
• specific design tasks
• dating of more than 70 000 words and meanings (from before the 1000's to 2000's)
• etymologies of approximately 28 000 words and meanings
• familiar quotations related to individual articles
• style squares, ie, comments on linguistic correctness.

In the app you can search for words basic shapes and a large number of curved shapes. Thanks to a spelling help you can find to a dictionary words, even if you are not sure how it is spelled. You can search for parts of dictionary words. It is also possible to search the multi-word expressions, for example, throw in the towel ( 'surrender'). From the links in the dictionary articles, you can also navigate the dictionary and come from one article to another. Finally, you can hear how words are to be pronounced, if you are connected to the Internet.

The app is developed by Isolve AB in cooperation with the Dictionary editorial team at the Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg. Spelling aid is based on algorithms from Oribi AB.

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