This Story Posted:
March 4th

 
 

[2:45 PM]
German To Russian Module Released For Verbs & Nouns
Richard Wellman has released a module for Verb and Nouns, a shareware dictionary engine for the Mac. Mr. Wellman's module translates German to Russian and vice versa. According to Mr. Wellman:

"This module helps you to study Russian vocabulary and grammar or to simply look words up in the dictionary: adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, subjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, nouns and verbs included; altogether until now almost 16.000 words and more than 200.000 derived forms.

With the adjective-dictionary you can study declension, comparative and superlative and adverb-forms. You can look up and practice conjugation of imperfective and perfective regular and irregular (reflexive) verbs in all tenses. The nouns-dictionary helps you look up and practice all cases and modi of regular and irregular nouns. Grammar- and thematic-groups help you gain better access and keep an easy overview. Speech-recording for pronounciation is possible; the nouns-dictionary include some 600 samples of important vocab. You may also associate pictures with every vocab-entry - interesting for association excercises within the excercise-module. Some 250 pictures can be found in the nouns-dictionary. With every Russian word you can include as many examples, phrases etc. as you wish; you'll find thousands of those already included.

The excercise-module offers 12 different combinations of excercises for studying/ checking (translation in both directions, dictation, flexion, quiz, association and hangman/wheel of fortune). Short- and longtime memory can be trained effectively; network capability is provided (schools/ universities etc.).

You can enter as many vocab, information, pictures and sounds as you want to; predefined grammar-rules and the stem-procedure-generator will support you to find the correct rules more easily. You can merge the dictionaries, create updates, im- and export vocabulary. In combination with V&N Lookup you have a unified dictionary which includes the information contained in all other Verbs and Nouns Russisch dictionaries. You may also perform spell-checks and translate Russian text out of any program."

Mr. Wellman has released a sampler with 50 translations included. The full version is shareware and can be downloaded from his web site. It also requires Verbs & Nouns to work.

Richard Wellman