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  1. Transcription
  2. Related words
  3. Usage examples
  4. Sources for dictionary entries and examples
  5. Troubleshooting

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  • Plural forms of nouns for English and German.
  • Irregular verb forms for English.
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Transcription

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Related words

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Usage examples

You can view word usage examples to the left of the dictionary entry. They include idioms and quotes from movies and books where the word was used.

Sources for dictionary entries and examples

  • Udmurt-Russian dictionary © Udmurt Institute for History, Language and Literature, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2008.
  • Mari language Dictionary = Marii muter © Mari Scientific and Research Institute of Language, Literature, and History, 1990-2005.
  • Wiktionary, the free multilingual dictionary.
  • Open-source parallel corpus OPUS (Jörg Tiedemann, 2012, Parallel Data, Tools and Interfaces in OPUS).

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