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Irish dictionary, grammar guide and translator
Ziovs Irish Dictionary
Every Irish word, with the grammar that goes with it.
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What it does
Ziovs Irish Dictionary - Foclóir Gaeilge - is an Irish dictionary, a grammar guide and a translator in one, and it runs entirely on your own phone or computer. Look up any Irish or English word and you get the meaning, and with the meaning come the gender, the genitive, the plural, the verbal noun and the comparative. For a verb you get the whole table of tenses and persons. You can also ask it a question: type plural of bean, or is cathair feminine, or how do you say butterfly, and the answer follows as you type. It puts English and fifteen other languages into Irish, writes any number out in Irish, works out the right form of a surname and the right prefix for a name, and speaks every word it knows in a recorded Irish voice. There is no account, no sign-in and no advertising, and nothing you type is ever sent anywhere.
The grammar comes with it
Look up any Irish or English word and you get the meaning, and with it the gender, the genitive, the plural, the verbal noun and the comparative. For a verb, the whole table of tenses and persons.
Ask it a question
Type plural of bean, or is cathair feminine, or how do you say butterfly. The answer follows as you type, with no button to press.
A recorded Irish voice
Every word it knows can be heard in a recorded Irish voice. Anything with no recording is spoken by the same Irish voice model running on the device, and your phone's own voice is never used.
Features
What it does
45,965 headwords
The dictionary itself, with the grammar attached: the meaning, the gender, the genitive, the plural, the verbal noun and the comparative for every word.
3,359 verb tables
The full set of tenses for every verb it knows, with the imperative and the past and future of each person, and the verbal noun and the verbal adjective.
Masculine and feminine, throughout
Say who you are talking about and it gives the matching form: sé or sí, fear mór or bean mhór, Ó Ceallaigh or Ní Cheallaigh.
Names, done properly
A woman's form and a married woman's form of a surname, a full name that takes the right prefix, and calling someone by name. Type them however you like - case, fadas, apostrophes, spaces and Mc or Mac make no difference - and a small typo is read as the nearest name, with a line saying so.
A translator for sixteen languages
English and fifteen other languages into Irish, with the language detected for you. A phrase it knows is answered from the phrasebook; anything else is translated word by word and marked as such.
Any number, written out in Irish
Type the number and it is written in words as you type: ordinals, ages, counting people, and counting any noun you name.
A recorded Irish voice
Every word it knows can be heard in a recorded Irish voice. Anything not recorded is spoken by the same Irish voice model running on the device. Your phone's own voice is never used.
Word of the day, saved words and your progress
Keep the words you have looked up, save the ones you want, and keep your day streak. All of it stays in the browser, on your device, and can be backed up as text to carry to another device.
On screen
See it working
Specification
Under the hood
| Platform | Any modern browser, on a phone or a computer. The Android app is in preparation. |
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| Connection | Needed the first time to load the page, then it works with no network |
| Account | None. There is no sign-in and no server of its own |
| Privacy | Nothing you type, look up or save is uploaded. There is no analytics and no advertising |
| Headwords | 45,965, each with its grammar |
| Verb tables | 3,359, the full set of tenses for every verb it knows |
| Translations | 49,642 into Irish, from 16 languages |
| Voice | 111,896 recorded clips in 256 packs, and an Irish voice model on the device for anything not recorded |
| Language | 1,100 checked sentences, 956 known phrases and 17 vocabulary topics |
| Version | 1.0.0 |
| Licence | The code is MIT. The data keeps the licences it came with, and the app's own About screen lists them |
Free
Free. No account, no sign-in, no advertising, nothing uploaded.
Coming soonZiovs Irish Dictionary is free and runs in the browser, on your own device. The web link and the Play Store link will appear here as soon as they are ready.
- Price
- Free
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Platform
- Any modern browser, on a phone or a computer. The Android app is in preparation.
- Languages
- Irish and English, and 16 languages understood for translation
- Account
- None. There is no sign-in and no server of its own
- Connection
- Needed the first time, then it runs with no network
- Made by
- Ziov Tech
- Free, with no account and no sign-in
- Nothing you type is ever sent anywhere
- Runs on your own device, and works with no network
Questions
Before you start
Is it free?
Yes. Ziovs Irish Dictionary is free. There is no account and no sign-in, nothing is sold and nothing is advertised.
Does it need to be online?
Only the first time, to load the page. After that everything runs on the device and it works with no network. The only request it makes is to fetch its own recorded Irish voice clips from the same place it was downloaded from.
Does it send anything I type?
No. Everything you type, every word you look up, every word you save and your day streak are kept in the browser, on your device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is shared, there are no analytics and no advertising.
What is actually in it?
45,965 headwords with their grammar, 3,359 verb tables, 49,642 translations into Irish, 111,896 voice recordings, 1,100 checked sentences, 956 known phrases and 17 vocabulary topics.
Can I ask it a question?
Yes. Type plural of bean, or is cathair feminine, or how do you say butterfly. The answer follows as you type, with no button to press.
Is the voice a recording or a robot?
A recorded Irish voice. There are 111,896 clips, made with an Irish voice model, and a pack is fetched only when a word in it is played. Anything with no recording is spoken by the same Irish voice model running on your own device, and your phone's own voice is never used.
Is this an official dictionary?
No. Answers marked word by word are a starting point, and it is a reading and learning tool rather than an authority. Check anything important in a dictionary.
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The dictionary is free
It is free, it needs no account, and nothing you type is ever sent anywhere. The link goes here first.
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