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Enter one or more words into the search field and click "Search" to look them up. What you can type in
What you should not type inWhile this should be obvious, sometimes it seems it's not: If you want the Zulu word for music, don't type The Zulu word for music. You'll get more noise than actual music. Just type music. I mean, you wouldn't talk to a printed dictionary, would you? No, this is not Wolfram Alpha. Lookup aidsWhile typing, you get a list of suggestions that best match your input (needs Javascript). Click on one of the suggestions to look it up. The list is built from the most wanted words of the past few weeks. This implies that if your word doesn't show up here you may still find it in the dictionary. So don't give up at this point. To re-lookup only part of your query, hold down the Ctrl key and select the desired substring with the mouse. This needs Javascript and preserves the original search field contents. To suppress the display of phonetic transcriptions, check the "hide phonetic spelling" box. To clear the search form click the "Clear" button. |
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The result set contains one paragraph per dictionary entry matching your query. If an entry can take different parts of speech, each part of speech is listed separately. Each paragraph begins with the keyword followed by its part of speech. Zulu entries then show the noun classes, the stem (in parantheses) and the (optional) phonetic spelling. Stems are denoted by a leading dash (-). Nouns appear as "singular/plural" if both forms exist, otherwise only one form is given. The English plural is only shown if it is irregular. For Zulu verbs the verb stem is given. English adjectives may translate to Zulu adjectives (very few), relatives or verbs each of which have their own sets of concords. Adjectives are marked "[adj.]" after the translation, relatives are marked "[rel.]" and verbs are marked "[v.]".
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