11/28/2023 0 Comments Spanish dictionary online![]() ![]() You may already be familiar with such options, for example, from, faz.net, and many other sites. This means that users who feel disturbed by advertising can now decide (for themselves) whether they would prefer to use LEO with advertising (and to continue to do so free of charge) or without it. Seriously, I’ve NEVER been unable to find a word on WR.For some time now, we have been working on a way to provide LEO in browers, too, without advertising (similar to what is available/presentation in the apps) – and, instead, to offer our services for a monthy (or annual) subscription fee. In short, I tell my students to use WR, because it’s simply the best resource on the web, and the forums are an absolute goldmine, because the majority of answers are provided by bilingual native speakers. By the way, fagocitar has three separate threads in the WR forums, and both definitions are covered, as well as a third use which is “to acquire (a smaller company)” in Spanish business language. The second definition is the one you found on WordReference, so it should’ve received 18 out of 18. I honestly can’t count the number of times I’ve been unable to find a word on SpanDict and gone to the WordReference forums and found it instantly.Īlso, fagocitar has two definitions, according to the RAE. I think it’s unfair to not include the forums, because they’re incredibly extensive and accurate. If you include the forums on WordReference (which are easily the most useful part of the site), all of these can easily be found there. If that is the case, please don’t forget to drop a comment to share your findings. ![]() Pretty impressive! □ĭo you know of another good Spanish dictionary online? Well, you may search the words above and see if it is even better than those I found. In fact, it is the only one that have translations for each of the five new words. Well, guess what, the winner is, again, SpanishDict. In fact, until today, I didn’t even know these existed: taray, zurumbático, pintiparar, protervia and taheño. Also, this time I gave half a point to any result that is not the precise translation I was looking for, but at least could be of some help (like “to engulf, to swallow up”).Īt first, the result was three dictionaries in a tie, so I decided to make things really hard. So, I repeated the comparison including the two new contenders. Second, now two other good dictionaries are also competing for the crown: and. In any case, it certainly has improved a lot since then. It’s still possible to use it as a dictionary, but sometimes it is necessary to include some “context” for it to decide the right translation. Now it has only one function: translate texts. First, Google Translator doesn’t have a dictionary, as such, anymore. Update Oct-05-2012: Since the date when this article was first written (back in 2008), things has changed a bit. In fact it also has a translation for the word fagocitar, which was “to engulf, to swallow up”, but it is not a precise translation and so I did not considered it correct (for the purposes of this comparison). SpanishDict has the correct translation for 17 22 of the 18 23 words. ![]() In this table I show how each of them performed on translating the words: These are the most popular Spanish online dictionaries I found: taheño: red (hair), having a red hair or beard, ginger.Īnd here are the results.protervia: protervity, wickedness, peevishness.pintiparar: to compare something to another thing, or to make something look like another thing.Update Oct-05-2012 (five new obscure words):.ligar (colloquial): to make advances, to pick up.fardar (colloquial): to show off, to brag.mogollón ( de), (colloquial): loads (of), tons (of).concha: mainly “shell”, but I was looking for the slang meaning “vulva, c*nt” (from Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay).pinche: mainly it means “cook’s assistant”, but I wanted to find the Mexican slang meaning “bloody, damn”.fronterizo: border, neighboring (states, etc.).To do that, I first found the five seven most popular online Spanish dictionaries (at least, according to Google), and then I compared them using the following (technical, slang or simply uncommon) Spanish words: ![]()
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