Google Translate now has a dictionary

Google recently released their new dictionary feature on their translate page. While they offer fairly simple translations (and don’t give any contextual information about the translations - yet), something I thought was pretty cool was that they do offer a large number of “related phrases” for whatever you search for. For example, if you search for an English-German translation for “language”, for the translations, you get:

1. Sprache f 2. (Fach)Sprache f 3. ordinäre Sprache 4. Spr, Sprache

While I won’t list all of them (you can see all of them here), here are some of the related phrases that are offered:

• by making the language extremely scientific ( or technical)
  durch die Verwissenschaftlichung der Sprache
  
• English is used everywhere there as the language of communication
  (die) Umgangssprache ist dort überall Englisch
  
• literary language
  Schriftsprache
  
• first language acquisition
  Erstspracherwerb
  
• technical language
  Fachsprache f n
  
• colloquial language
  Umgangssprache f n
  
• official language
  Amtssprache

Certainly, it needs a lot of work - plural forms aren’t given, irregular verbs aren’t marked, nor are the irregular forms given, etc. But I think it’s a good start, and the related phrases thing is nice, even if the definition section leaves a bit to be desired.

The languages available right now are:

• French <-> English
• German <-> English
• Italian <-> English
• Korean <-> English
• Spanish <-> English