ABBYY Lingvo 12 Editions Compared


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ABBYY Lingvo 12 First Step
Edition(1)

ABBYY Lingvo 12 English Edition

ABBYY Lingvo 12 European Edition

ABBYY Lingvo 12 Three Languages

ABBYY Lingvo 12 Multilingual Edition

En De Fr It Es Ru
English + - - - - - + + + +
Russian + + + + + + + + + +
German  - - - - -
French - - - - -
Italian - - - - -
Spanish - - - - -
Chinese - - - - - -
Turkish - - - - - -
Ukrainian - - - - - -
Latin - - - - - -
No. of dictionaries
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ABBYY Lingvo 12 European Edition

ABBYY Lingvo 12 Three Languages

ABBYY Lingvo 12 Multilingual Edition

En De Fr It Es Ru
English 12 - - - - - 47 47 47 47
Russian - - - - - 1 3 3 3 3
German - 5 - - - - 27 27
French - - 3 - - - 15 15
Italian - - - 3 - - - 10 10
Spanish - - - - 3 - 8 8
Chinese - - - - - - - - - 2
Turkish - - - - - - - - - 4
Ukrainian - - - - - - - - 9 9
Latin - - - - - - - - - 3
Total no. of dictionaries 12 5 3 3 3 1 50 110 59 128
Total no. of entries 883
thousand
122
thousand
35
thousand
50
thousand
100
thousand
136
thousand
2.5 m 6 m 3.4 m 7.5 m
Total no. of general dictionaries 2 2 2 2 2 - 2 11 6 20
Collins English Dictionary
(120,000 entries)
- - - - - - + + +
ABBYY Lingvo Universal, general English-Russian dictionary, revised and updated in 2006 in collaboration with Russkiy Yazyk -  Media
(100,000 entries)
+(2) - - - - - Updated Updated Updated Updated
New Comprehensive Russian-English Dictionary by D.I. Yermolovich, T.M. Krasavina
(110,000 entries)
- - - - - - + + + +
Dictionary of the Russian Language - - - - - Updated Updated Updated Updated Updated
AMERICANA II, encyclopaedic dictionary - - - - - - + + + +
Dictionary of Great Britain - - - - - - + + + +
Dictionary of Austria - - - - - - - + - +
German-Russian Dictionary by O.I. Moskalskaja et al. - - - - - - - + - +
Russian-German Dictionary by M.J. Zwilling - - - - - - - + - +
New French-Russian Dictionary by V.G. gal et al. - - - - - - - + - +
Russian-French Dictionary by L.V. Scerba et al. - - - - - - - + - +
Spanish-Russian Dictionary by B.P. Narumov et al. - - - - +(3) - - + - +
Comprehensive Spanish-Russian Dictionary by G.Ya. Turover et al. - - - - +(3) - - + - +
Comprehensive Italian-Russian Dictionary by G.F. Zorco - - - - - - - + - +
Comprehensive English-Russian Phraseological Dictionary by A.V. Kunin
(20,000 entries)
- - - - - - + + + +
 Russian-English Dictionary of Religious Terminology by A.A. Azarov
(14,000 entries)
- - - - - -  +   +   +   + 
 German-Russian Dictionary of Contemporary Idioms by D.G. Malzewa
(1,400 entries)
- + - - - - - + - +
German-Russian Dictionary of Art by I.W. Kozyrewa (9,000 entries) - - - - - - - + - +
 German-Russian Dictionary of Beer by E.S. Anjuschkin
(15,000 entries)
- - - - - - - + - +
Spanish-Russian Dictionary of Latin America by N.M. Firsova
(50,000 entries)
- - - - - - - + - +
New Comprehensive Russian-Italian Dictionary by A.B. Kanestri
(220,000 entries)
- - - - - - - + - +
Popular Dictionary of the Russian Language by A.P. Guskova, B.V. Sotin.
(5,000 entries)
- - - - - - + + + +
Latin-Russian Dictionary by  I.Kh. Dvoretsky
(200,000 entries)
- - - - - - - - -
New Russian-Ukrainian Polytechnical Dictionary by N.G. Zubkov (100,000 entries) - - - - - - - - + +
Ukrainian-English Dictionary. Economics, Finance, Banking, Investments, Bank Loans by S. Ya. Yermolenko, V. I. Yermolenko
(12,500 entries)
- - - - - - - - + +
English-Ukrainian Dictionary. Economics, Finance, Banking, Investments, Bank Loans by S. Ya. Yermolenko, V. I. Yermolenko
(12,500 entries)
- - - - - - - - + +
Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language
(250,000 entries)
- - - - - - - - + +
English grammar reference + - - - - - + + + +
No. of phrase books 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 5 1 5
No. of English words pronounced 15,000 - - - - - 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 
No. of German words pronounced - 9,000 - - - - - 10,000 - 10,000
No. of French words pronounced - - 4,000 - - - - 5,000 - 5,000
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ABBYY Lingvo 12 Multilingual Edition

Full-text search in the entire text of all the dictionaries + + + + +
Auto search (launched when search term is not found in overall word list) + + + + +
Wildcard search + + + + +
Word-by-word translation + + + + +
Lookup of words in any grammatical form + + + + +
Spelling suggestions + + + + +
Lookup from within other applications
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ABBYY Lingvo 12 Multilingual Edition

Pop-up translation on mouse over + + + + +
Lingvo lookup button on the Microsoft Word toolbar + + + + +
Lookup command on the shortcut menu in Microsoft Internet Explorer + + + + +
Ctrl+Ins+Ins/Ctrl+C+C lookup hotkeys available in any Windows application + + + + +
User-friendly dictionaries
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ABBYY Lingvo 12 Multilingual Edition

Translations from all the dictionaries are presented in a single window as browsable entries + + + + +
Dictionaries can be grouped by subject + + + + +
Dictionaries can be ranked by priority + + + + +
Dictionaries can be enabled/disabled + + + + +
User dictionaries
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ABBYY Lingvo 12 Multilingual Edition

Ability to create and use LUD user dictionaries from within ABBYY Lingvo + + + + +
Ability to use LSD user dictionaries (e.g. downloaded from www.LingvoDA.ru) - + + + +
PDAs and smartphones
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ABBYY Lingvo 12 Multilingual Edition

Pocket PC - + (recognizes words in any grammatical form) + (recognizes words in any grammatical form) + (recognizes words in any grammatical form) + (recognizes words in any grammatical form)
PALM Handheld - + + + +
Smartphone (Windows Mobile) - + + + +
Smartphone (Symbian OS) - + + + +
Learning languages
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ABBYY Lingvo 12 Multilingual Edition

ABBYY Lingvo Tutor for PC, an application for learning new words + + + + +
ABBYY Lingvo Tutor for Pocket PC, an application for learning new words - + + + +
No. of pre-installed Tutor dictionaries (Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant, Weather, Clothes, Job) 12 12 60 12 60
Other
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ABBYY Lingvo 12 Multilingual Edition

Viewing grammatical forms of a word + + + + +
Highlighting stressed vowels + + + + +
Query history + + + + +
Main window and card window transparency + + + + +

 

(1) The ABBYY Lingvo 12 First Step series includes:

(2) An abridged version of this dictionary is available in ABBYY Lingvo 12 First Step: the entries have been abridged.

(3) An abridged version of this dictionary is available in ABBYY Lingvo 12 First Step: the number of entries has been reduced.

For the full list of available dictionaries, please refer to ABBYY Lingvo Dictionaries.