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Woods wrote:About Swedish there’s not even a single comprehensive dictionary online, and the only dictionary I’ve been able to find for Windows is Norstedts’s, which is so old it doesn’t even run on modern PCs.
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Doesn't the Swedish government care, besides providing courses to immigrants, to provide people who have an interest in the language at least with a dictionary?
hashi wrote:It may be cumbersome to have to look this up all the time, but there are shortcuts, such as an extension for Chrome where you can enter the word and it searches Wiktionary for you.
hashi wrote:The English version of Wiktionary has most common words you'd need, but for harder-to-find words, or more in-depth explanations I definitely find the Swedish version better (although a working knowledge of Swedish would really be needed to understand it). I can't recall ever coming across a word that I couldn't find this way though.
Johanna wrote:Svenska Akademien (…) works independently from the government
Johanna wrote:Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) is supposed to be a record of all words in the Swedish language all the way back to 1521, but it's not finished and only covers A to vedersyn so far, and since they started on it in the late 19th century, spellings may be obsolete and you won't find modern words early in the alphabet either. But hopefully that will change once the dictionary itself is finished.
Woods wrote:I don’t really care if it uses some old spelling – you guys here are telling me the latest reforms are all messed up anyway
Chekhov wrote:I don't know about naive worldviews, but Jurgen Wullenwhatever pisses me off to no end because of his extreme pessimism and cynicism. You'd think the world was going to end imminently when talking to that guy.
Woods wrote:It seems to be overloaded with tons of explanations, sub-explanations and examples and there’s no clear exposition of what the word actually means.
Just look at this shit:
http://www.saob.se/artikel/?show=k%C3%A ... .iY2L&pz=3
What the fuck…
But it may still be much a better choice than Wiktionary
Actually, I think I can skim through the articles and find what I need. Many thanks!
TeneReef wrote: http://lexin.nada.kth.se/lexin/
great learner,s dictionary
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