Changing Default Language for Definitions
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Hello,
I just downloaded this extension and was curious on how to change the default language for definitions. I'm hoping to use this tool to help look up definitions for German words, but when I double click them the definitions are in German which doesn't really help me much since I am pretty new to learning German. Was hoping there was a way to specify a default language but there doesn't seem to be an option in the settings (or I'm overlooking it).
Any help would be appreciated. Regards!
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@Needausername
Thank you for the feedback. It shows German as the lookup source is from google definition, Google shows German there. I will see what I can do, probably I can get rid of Google, use Wiktionary for German instead
That said, there is a hack to get translation of your native language:
- Please open this google result
- On the right side there is a translation tool, set it to your fluent language such as
English. - Refresh the page, the translator should stay in English, right?
From now on you will get English translation when you double click on any German words.
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Hey thanks for getting back to me. I tried the translation tool change you suggested but it doesn't change the translator to English beyond that google page.
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@Needausername
if you refresh that google page, does it stay the same language in the translator?
If so it should work. But as Dictionariez has cache, you need to look up a new word to see the new result. -
@river Yeah I have refreshed the page and have also searched for other definitions, but the only change is the translation in the little box (see attached, similar to your own picture). It doesn't actually change the definition language listed in the google search result or through the extension for me.
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@Needausername
Oh, that's it. Sorry I didn't make it clear. It doesn't change the definition language actually, it only gives you an English translation that comes along with the German definitions. So it's not a complete solution, only a mitigationI am currently working on this issue. So in the next version, you will be able to get the English definition of any given German words.
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@river Oh that makes more since. Thank you, thank you.
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Just published V7.1.0, with which you will get English definitions for German words, and a bit more
(It's now already available on Firefox, and needs a few more days for review on Chrome webstore and Edge addons. Stay tuned!)https://pnl.dev/topic/1050/dutch-greek-hindi-persian-and-much-more-dictionariez-v7-1-0
Thank you again for the feedback, so that I could be able to fix it as soon as I could
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