Word Forms

ABBYY Lingvo can display all the grammatical forms of a given word (e.g. go, going, gone, went, etc.).

You may wish to view the grammatical forms of a word if:

you have encountered an unfamiliar word form;

if you need to use a word form which you are not sure how to write.

Viewing grammatical forms in the ABBYY Lingvo main window

To the grammatical forms of a word in the main program window:

1. Type in the word in the search field.

Note: If you are using a multilingual edition of ABBYY Lingvo, be sure to select a source language that matches the language of the word whose forms you wish to see. This is important because some words may be written similarly in different languages.

2. Do one of the following:

Select the Show Word Forms command form the Tools menu.

Click on the Lingvo toolbar.

Viewing the grammatical forms of a card's headword

To view the grammatical forms of the headword of an open card:

Select the Show Word Forms command from the local menu, or

Click on the card toolbar.