ABBYY Lingvo

ABBYY Lingvo Translation Dictionary is a dictionary application for Windows PC that lets you translate words, expand your vocabulary, and master foreign languages. It contains trusted dictionaries for up to 19 languages, including German, Spanish, Italian, and English.

⚠ Note: This product is not developed anymore and might not function properly.

If you are looking for alternatives, we recommend you to download Dictionary, Google Translate or Lingoes.

Quick and accurate translations
Get translations faster: use a search bar – it will display suggestions as you type, just like in search engines. View pop-up translations in other apps: just aim the pointer at a word in a PDF file, an e-mail message, or a website.

World-class dictionaries
Oxford University Press and HarperCollins Publishers world's leading dictionaries inside. Idiomatic dictionaries, phrasebooks, and dictionaries of English slang and colloquialisms. Subject dictionaries of engineering, economics, computer and medicine terms, and others.

Learn foreign languages
Explore new words easily with flashcards. Listen to pronunciations of words recorded by native speakers. Check verb tenses, grasp meanings of idioms and expressions, and get usage examples of words.

Features and Highlights

Translate words into 19 languages
Translate from English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Finnish, Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Tatar, Polish, Hungarian, Danish, Norwegian, and Latin into Russian and back.

Trusted dictionaries
Take advantage of general translation and specialized dictionaries, phrasebooks, and dictionaries of phraseology and slang in 19 languages. Get translations of words, synonyms, and antonyms, and grasp meanings of idioms and set expressions. Usage examples will help you choose the best translation option. ABBYY Lingvo for PC also contains the Oxford Dictionary of English and the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learners Dictionary with up-to-date English vocabulary.

Pop-up translations
Get pop-up translations by aiming the pointer at words on websites, images, e-mail messages, video subtitles, and PDF files. The pop-up translation window has a button that lets you quickly add this word to ABBYY Tutor, a vocabulary-building app.

Vocabulary building app
Expand your vocabulary by regularly completing quick exercises with ABBYY Tutor. These lessons can help you memorize the meaning, spelling, and pronunciation of new words. Make your studies more effective by setting up your own exercise schedule. ABBYY Tutor offers ready-to-use vocabulary lists containing frequently used words in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. These learning lists cover a wide range of topics, including business, sight-seeing, and shopping.

New transparent interface
Get meanings of words in seconds via the new interface. The window with entries now has its own search bar, which works just like that one of popular search engines: it offers autocompletion suggestions when you misspell a word. Download ABBYY Lingvo for Windows Now!

Specialized dictionaries
Get the correct translation of industry-specific terms by looking up specialized dictionaries of law, economics, finances, marketing, banking, business, mechanical engineering, construction and architecture, oil and gas, chemistry, medicine, biology, and other areas.

Grammar lessons from Oxford
Improve your English with Oxford “Test it, Fix it” grammar lessons for pre-intermediate and intermediate learners. Based on learning from fixing your own mistakes, they are especially well-suited for independent study. You choose a theme, complete a lesson of multiple-choice questions, and then check your answers. Every lesson comes with a handy grammar reference, allowing you to fix any incorrect answer and progress from your mistakes.

Other features for learning languages
Listen to pronunciations of words recorded by native speakers of English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian. Check verb tenses using tables of inflected forms. Look up words in the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, which contains usage examples and additional information on grammar, usage frequency, and synonyms. Use the English grammar reference.

Note: 15 days trial version.