When you look up a word, you will often get multiple translations for its various senses. Before selecting the translation that best suits your context, you may wish to view the usage examples, i.e. sentences and text fragments that contain your search term and its translations.

With the Translations tab selected, click on a word in the entry to view the example sentences.

The example sentences may also provide some additional information about how the translation equivalents are used. For example, you may see what prepositions are typically used with a certain verb or noun.

For some language combinations, there may be no usage examples. If this is the case, try the Phrases tab, where you may find a set phrase or word combination for your query.

Use the "Advanced search" feature:

1. Click the Examples tab.
2. Click the Advanced search link.
3. In the topmost field, type the original word, and in the bottom field, type the translation you have in mind.
   Note: If you leave the bottom field empty, ABBYY Lingvo.Pro will find all the sentences and text fragments that contain the original word.
4. Click the Search button.

ABBYY Lingvo.Pro will retrieve all the sentences where the original word is translated as you have specified in the bottom field. Both the original word and its translation will be highlighted.

To do a case-sensitive search:

1. Click the Examples tab.
2. Click the Advanced search link.
3. Select the Match case option.
   This makes ABBYY Lingvo.Pro distinguish between capitalized and non-capitalized words.
4. Click the Search button.

Let us take German as an example. All nouns in this language are capitalized, while verbs are not, so, for instance, Essen, is a noun and translates as food and essen is a verb and translates as to eat. Now if you type essen and select the Match case option, you will find example sentences only for the verb.

ABBYY Lingvo.Pro may help you get a general idea what a sentence or a long phrase is about. With the Translations tab selected, type your sentence or long phrase into the search field, click Search, and you will get translations for each of the words.

Try the following:

• Make sure you have spelled the word correctly.
  Note: In most cases, ABBYY Lingvo.Pro will offer spelling suggestions for a misspelled word, so all you will need to do is select the right alternative.
• Try looking for a translation on the Examples and Phrases tabs.
  On these tabs, you may find sentences and phrases containing your word accompanied by their translations. This may give you an idea of how your word can be translated.

Note: If cannot find a translation for a certain word, this does not necessarily mean that the word does not exist. This may be a very rare or specialist term that has not yet made it into the ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries. Please use the feedback form to let us know, or add the missing word into the dictionary yourself.

Unfortunately, you cannot subscribe to the locked dictionaries at the moment. One way to access this content is to buy the edition of ABBYY Lingvo x5 that includes the dictionaries you need. Once you activate your ABBYY Lingvo x5 licence, you will also be able to access the purchased dictionaries online at ABBYY Lingvo.Pro.

Unfortunately, no dictionaries are currently available for some language combinations. Please refer to the All dictionaries page for the complete list of available dictionaries and their descriptions.

If you know the right translation for a word, you can add this translation into the dictionary.

Use the virtual keyboard. Click the icon below the search field and then select the desired language. The virtual keyboard supports almost all of the languages available on ABBYY Lingvo.Pro.

Note: The virtual keyboard does not support Chinese characters.

The layouts of the virtual keyboard are almost identical to the layouts of the corresponding physical keyboards.

Translations on ABBYY Lingvo.Pro come from multiple dictionaries. Some of them are always available to all users, while others may be locked. Please refer to the All dictionaries page for the complete list of dictionaries and their descriptions.

If you have purchased and installed the ABBYY Lingvo x5 application, you can make your ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries also accessible to you via the ABBYY Lingvo.Pro website.

1. Install ABBYY Lingvo x5 on your computer and activate your licence.
2. Log in to ABBYY Lingvo.Pro.
   Note: If you are not a registered user of ABBYY Lingvo.Pro, you will need to register and log in.
3. Go to the Accessing your ABBYY Lingvo x5 dictionaries page.
4. Enter the serial number of your copy of ABBYY Lingvo x5 and click the Add button.

Once the serial number is accepted, the dictionaries available in your copy of ABBYY Lingvo x5 will also become available to you on ABBYY Lingvo.Pro. Detailed information about your copy of ABBYY Lingvo x5 and its dictionaries can be found on the Accessing your ABBYY Lingvo x5 dictionaries page.

Your ABBYY Lingvo x5 dictionaries will be available to you on ABBYY Lingvo.Pro for a period of one year from the day you activate your ABBYY Lingvo x5 licence.

Note: If you own a time-limited ABBYY Lingvo x5 licence, you will not be able to access your ABBYY Lingvo x5 dictionaries online after your licence expires.

For the complete list of ABBYY Lingvo x5 dictionaries that you can access online and their expiration date, please refer to the Accessing your ABBYY Lingvo x5 dictionaries page.

To be able to add translations, you must be a registered user.

All your translations will be published online under the pen-name that you can specify (and change) on the Add translations page.

Unfortunately, currently users can only add words and their translations into the ABBYY Lingvo.Pro dictionary.

In the future, users will be able to supplement words and translations they add with examples, comments, synonyms, and other information.

The username is the name you specify when you register with ABBYY Online. The username is displayed in the upper right-hand corner of the page and is visible only to you.

The pen-name is the name you specify on ABBYY Lingvo.Pro. The pen-name is visible to other ABBYY Lingvo.Pro users and lets them know who added a particular translation or provided feedback about their own translation.

You can specify or change your pen-name at any time when you add a translation.

If you have found an error in an ABBYY Lingvo dictionary, please use the feedback form to let us know.

If you think that a bad or incorrect translation has been provided for a certain example, click the button to complain.

Note: A translation may seem to be incorrect because you can see only a fragment of the entire text.

If you believe that publication of certain content on ABBYY Lingvo.Pro is infringing your copyright, please let us know. In you infringement notice, be sure to specify:

1. The content to which you own copyright
2. The country where your copyright is recognized
3. How we can contact you back