Slava Russian Dictionary

Slava Russian Dictionary

This extension writes accents on Russian words, and adds a popup to each word with its English definition.

What is Slava Russian Dictionary?
'Slava Russian Dictionary' is a handy Chrome extension specifically designed to assist in learning the Russian language by providing accents for Russian words and displaying popup English definitions. The feature-rich tool marks vocal stress positions, provides key grammatical forms, and clarifies perfective or imperfective verb forms. The definitions and examples are fetched from the Wiktionary public API. This non-commercial, open-source extension respects user privacy, neither recording nor sending any data to external servers.
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By: Unknown
Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.59 (17)
Version: 0.0.0.4 (Last updated: 2019-05-28)
Creation date: 2019-05-27
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • <all_urls>
Size: 4.00M
URLs: Website
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Summary

Features:

  • When visiting a page with Russian text, click the owl icon in the toolbar. This will mark accents (vocal stress position) on Russian words. For example, предложение is converted to предложе́ние.
  • After clicking the owl icon, move the mouse over any Russian word to display a pop-up with the English definition of the word. *) Word base form and accent, e.g. окно́. Click on the Word base to show the full Wiktionary entry with etymology, declension and other information. *) Word class and grammar, e.g. Noun or Adjective, neutral, inanimate *) Key grammatical forms, e.g. neutral inanimate *) For verbs, perfective or imperfective and the corresponding other form(s), e.g. пить impf (perfective вы́пить or попи́ть) *) Definition and example sentences

Notes:

  • The extension must be manually activated for every tab where you want it to run. For this, click on the button with the owl icon in the toolbar.
  • In some cases, there are multiple possibilities for accenting the word. For example, окна can be окна́ (genitive singular) or о́кна (nominative/accusative plural). The extension does not attempt to guess the correct case, so it will mark the word о́кна́. The reader should of course not accent both vowels, but infer the correct pronunciation from the context.

This is a non-commercial, open-source project. There are no ads or hidden features.

Privacy policy: the extension does not record not sends any information to external servers. When a pop-up is displayed, the Wiktionary public API is called to retrieve the word definition to be displayed.

User reviews
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Pros
  • Great tool for learners of Russian, helping with word stress, definitions and pronunciations, making reading easier.
  • The extension can read and change all data on websites visited on click, accenting all Russian text in the active tab.
  • It is able to load accents and annotations quick and efficiently.
  • Even after copy-pasting the accented Russian text, it maintains the accents.
Cons
  • Users have to manually click on the extension every time to mouse over words, making it a bit inconvenient. Users prefer if it could be active all the time like the Zhongwen extension.
  • Does not work with all web fonts, causing some texts to be distorted by accent marks.
  • It does not work on text in Google docs and only recognizes video descriptions on YouTube, but not the comments.
  • The dictionary pop-up window only stays open for a short period of time which is insufficient for reading long dictionary entries.
Most mentioned
  • The extension improves reading experience for Russian learners by providing instant definitions, pronunciations and word stress.
  • Accenting Russian text and maintaining the accents even on copy-pasting is a popular feature.
  • Users would like it to be always active, similar to the Zhongwen extension, and not require manual clicking each time for mouse-over words.
Recent reviews
by Putri Sonia Putri Sonia, 2024-02-26

This is a great extension but it is taking a lot of time to show the meaning when I click the word. Please consider making this extension like Zhongwen where we can get the meaning of a word as soon as we hover on it
by Lakshmikanth .V Lakshmikanth .V, 2023-11-25

The best! I love it
by marius silviu stan marius silviu stan, 2023-03-20
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Safety
Risk impact

Slava Russian Dictionary may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

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