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An Electronic French Dictionary (Electronic Dictionaries) [Kindle Edition]

Lucas Nicolato
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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This dictionary (French-English only) is intended to help the student by providing short definitions for most words, even when found in inflected form. Some of the Dictionary's main features:

- Configurable as Kindle Primary Dictionary
- More than 200,000 entries, including inflected forms.
- Promotional price: the best dictionary for the lowest price.

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Intructions to configure the Electronic French Dictionary as Kindle Primary Dictionary (Kindle 2, 3, Keyboard):

1) Purchase it in the kindle store and wait until it is downloaded to your kindle
2) Press the Home button
3) Press the Menu button
4) Use the 5-way to underline ‘Settings’ and press 5-way to select
5) Press the Menu button
6) Use the 5-way to underline ‘Change Primary Dictionary’ and press 5-way to select
7) Use 5-way to select this dictionary, then press 5-way to select it, when it’s underlined.


Intructions to configure the Electronic French Dictionary as Kindle Primary Dictionary (Kindle 4):

1) Purchase it in the kindle store and wait until it is downloaded to your kindle
2) Press the Home button
3) Press the Menu button
4) Use the 5-way to underline ‘Settings’ and press 5-way to select
5) Press the "Next Page" button until the "Dictionaries" option is shown on the screen.
6) Use the 5-way to underline ‘Dictionaries - set’ and press 5-way to select
7) Use the 5-way controller to underline the language (French) and press the 5-way to select it.
8) Use 5-way to select this dictionary, then press 5-way to select it, when it’s underlined.


Once the dictionary is select as Kindle Primary Dictionary you can, while reading any text in French, check the meaning of a word by moving the cursor to the word with the 5-way button.

You can also change back the Default Dictionary to the English-English one or any other you own by following the instructions above.

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
By David
Format:Kindle Edition
My French is good enough to tackle the classic novels, but with frequent use of a dictionary, especially where there's an unknown word which is key to understanding. I've set this as my Kindle dictionary and can now get basic look up when I need it. It works pretty well, finding words like "chevalet", but not "paravent" and it spots verb forms, noun plurals etc pretty well too. It's good enough for me, and better than carrying around a small dictionary. It's not perfect, but at such a low price I don't see how anyone could complain too much.

But for the perfectionists:

It doesn't pick up words with apostrophes eg "s'occuper". It doesn't give noun genders. It tells you that eg "bottines" is the plural of "bottine" but to find what "bottine" means, you have to click down to the detail level (and in the case of verb forms you may then need to scroll through a page or two to get to the infinitive)

Some of this is because the initial pop up window in Kindle is small so it only displays the top level. And I suspect that other dictionaries may be similar in this respect.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By E. WOOLSTON TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
First, I was pleased at the number of words this little dictionary offered: 200,000 isn't shabby even if some of the entries are conjugations of the same verb. (Compare this with the Collins Concise which for over £12 offers 24200 'references & entries'). It hasn't just kept to the most common words (my main criticism of Merriam-Webster's offering) making it a real help when reading French text. For instance, it contains the slightly archaic slang exclamation 'bath' (super, smashing!) something which my biggish Larousse also contains. It even contains the word as a noun meaning a particularly high quality letter paper. I had to resort to the French online Wiktionary for this translation which appeared in none of my French reference books.
It can be set as a primary Kindle dictionary so that the translation appears in your text when you set the cursor next to a word which is in the Dictionary.
It loses a star(and I would have preferred to have lost it only half a star) only because one or two translations could mislead a true beginner eg a 'sébile' is described as 'a round vessel made of wood or earth'. It is actually a bowl, such as a begging bowl, made of wood or clay. This leads me to believe that the writer may have English as a second (albeit well-mastered) language.
Like all the other translation dictionaries I've found so far, it lacks the ability to allow users to add their own entries. It will, at least, allow you to annotate. Like the Merriam dictionaries, it doesn't allow you to search the English text but I'd be happy to buy an English-French version.

Although I bought this only because of its cheap price, it has been a pleasant surprise. I would have happily paid more for a longer version. On the strength of this product, I have also bought Nicolato's Italian English dictionary.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
As far as I can tell this is not meant to be an all-inclusive English-French dictionary. All it is, is a simple lookup dictionary for when you're reading a French text on your Kindle and you don't know what a word means so you need to look it up quickly. And it does that very well, particularly at the price. It's certainly a LOT quicker to find out what a word means than the traditional method of putting down my Kindle, picking up my weighty Collins/Robert, finding the word (assuming I've managed to work out the conjugation which is the bit that always gets me, I can spend a great deal of time trying to work out what the infinitive might be for the verb conjugation I am reading, and very often fail miserably), reading the translation, putting down the Collins/Robert, picking up the Kindle again. And none of that is possible on the Tube in the morning! Using this as the Kindle's internal dictionary rather than a separate dictionary means that the story flow is interrupted far less by your failure to know a particular word.

You already know if the word is masculine or feminine because the le/la will be there in the text before you. Yes when it says "plural of xxx" you have to delve a little further, but it's still nowhere near as time-consuming (or inconvenient on the Tube) as having a separate large dictionary at hand. Given its price I think it's a marvellous piece of kit for assisting with language learning. It's not meant to replace a big, inclusive English-French dictionary. If you want to know more about a word then jot it down and look it up in detail elsewhere. But if you're just trying to improve your French vocabulary by reading some French stories and you have to stop every page to look up something you don't know, then this cheap little dictionary, set as the Kindle's default dictionary, is a fabulous aid that doesn't break the bank.

I have also purchased the Italian version in preparation for starting to read some Italian stories - particularly now that Kindle on amazon.it has arrived!
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Does not work at all with the Kindle Touch
If you look under the Product details for this dictionary, you will see that the language is shown as English. Read more
Published 28 days ago by Redundant Banker
Not great for the purpose I'd intended
Bought this to take on holiday to France to help with menu decoding...the majority of words I tried to find weren't included. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Disappointed
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I read french regularly on my Kindle; just being able to switch to the dictionary to look words up is so useful, and the dictionary is just so easy to use. Read more
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I find this useful on my Kindle when I am reading French novels as I can skip from the novel to the dictionary whenever I need to check the meaning of a word.
Published 2 months ago by Mr. Jeffrey Kershaw
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This is excellent value. When reading or conversing, it is very quick to find a definition and it gives examples of usage plus variations in tense etc.
Published 2 months ago by Lynn
What, no genders!!!
Ok, so it's cheap and has some French words, so I can hardly give it less than 2 stars. However, within seconds I was disappointed with the glaring lack of genders. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ventoux
Good value
The price was the main thing that attracted me to this, as I wanted a French-English Dictionary on my Kindle. Read more
Published 4 months ago by C. R. Bullock
Really useful
This is ideal to keep at hand when reading French information on the Internet,there are one or two words it doesn't know, but the majority are there and it is much quicker than... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Giselle
Does more than you would think
I risked £1.32 on what I thought might be a pretty indifferent, but better than nothing, Kindle French English Dictionary. Read more
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