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The goal of dict.cc is to make it possible to share your vocabulary knowledge with the world. This is the main difference from other translation services - every user is encouraged to contribute to the English-German dictionary by adding and/or verifying translation suggestions. The resulting vocabulary database can be downloaded and used for free.Besides browsing the dictionary or searching for German-English translations you can also ask and answer questions related to the German or English language using the translation forum. To improve your language skills try the vocabulary trainer.
Disclaimer: The correctness of the translations cannot be guaranteed (nobody is perfect), but all input will be checked carefully. If you spot an error, please report it using the info button [i] located next to each translation within the search results.
News & History (RSS)
2018-11-06: 16 years of dict.cc!
Still the usage trend is towards mobile use (apps and mobile website) and away from the desktop website, I can also see this in the support requests I get by e-mail. In the last year I reprogrammed the Android app from scratch, releasing lots of alpha, beta and bugfix versions, so now the Android app is pretty stable. Reprogramming the iPhone version of the app is still in the works.
Even though the app rewrites are not finished yet I added another new feature to the desktop website this year, the translation wish list. It seems to be working quite well and has led to a lot of useful new translation entries already.
Another important topic this year was the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I have been told that I should also add the well-known cookie message that pops up everywhere on the web nowadays. But I refuse to do that because I find these popups really annoying. Every time I'm on a new website I have to find and click the close button before I can use the site. If data privacy is really important for you, you will delete your cookies regularly, but as the "closed" status of the message can only be stored using cookies, these messages will keep reappearing, making things even worse. Apart from that, I don't know about any regulation that explicitly demands the use of these messages. So before I change dict.cc for the worse, I rather take the legal risk of not displaying this popup message.
Again, the yearly statistics snapshot:
1,177,901 German-English translations, 1,567,830 translations in other language pairs
1,133,643 audio recordings, 1,156,857 inflection entries, 283,044 illustrating images
254,694 registered users, 33,380 of them contributors
Thanks to all contributors for their never-ending work and efforts!
Still the usage trend is towards mobile use (apps and mobile website) and away from the desktop website, I can also see this in the support requests I get by e-mail. In the last year I reprogrammed the Android app from scratch, releasing lots of alpha, beta and bugfix versions, so now the Android app is pretty stable. Reprogramming the iPhone version of the app is still in the works.
Even though the app rewrites are not finished yet I added another new feature to the desktop website this year, the translation wish list. It seems to be working quite well and has led to a lot of useful new translation entries already.
Another important topic this year was the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I have been told that I should also add the well-known cookie message that pops up everywhere on the web nowadays. But I refuse to do that because I find these popups really annoying. Every time I'm on a new website I have to find and click the close button before I can use the site. If data privacy is really important for you, you will delete your cookies regularly, but as the "closed" status of the message can only be stored using cookies, these messages will keep reappearing, making things even worse. Apart from that, I don't know about any regulation that explicitly demands the use of these messages. So before I change dict.cc for the worse, I rather take the legal risk of not displaying this popup message.
Again, the yearly statistics snapshot:
1,177,901 German-English translations, 1,567,830 translations in other language pairs
1,133,643 audio recordings, 1,156,857 inflection entries, 283,044 illustrating images
254,694 registered users, 33,380 of them contributors
Thanks to all contributors for their never-ending work and efforts!
2018-08-26: Changing language pairs now also possible using search suggestions. Just type in a token like "hu" or "desv" and pick the first suggestion.
Choosing from the suggestion list should also work using the tab key on the keyboard now.
Choosing from the suggestion list should also work using the tab key on the keyboard now.
2018-08-24: The suggestions that appear when typing in a search keyword now tolerate typos.
If a word was typed in correctly and completely, so it can be searched for just by pressing the enter key, it will be printed in bold letters within the suggestions window.
If a word was typed in correctly and completely, so it can be searched for just by pressing the enter key, it will be printed in bold letters within the suggestions window.
2018-08-01: The audio wish list is now available for all languages.