SweDic (Swedish - English Dictionary)

Swedish - English Dictionary by look up at The People's Dictionary.
What is SweDic (Swedish - English Dictionary)?
SweDic (Swedish - English Dictionary) is a chrome extension designed for language learners, incorporating data from the People's Dictionary. It provides audio translations without needing to open a new tab, facilitates quick translations by simple right-click or key command options and features extra links to Google Translate and Tyda.se. Updates include CSS position fixing, additional dictionary links, built-in Google Analytics and several fixing updates for seamless dictionary searches.

Extension stats

Users: 935 ▼ -26
Rating: 3.93 (28)
Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2013-07-17)
Creation date: 2013-07-17
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
Size: 46.28K

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Extension summary

Please read "Useful features" and "How to use", then you can use the extension usefully.

Swedish - English dictionary extension based on data from the People Dictionary (http://folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se/folkets/folkets.en.html)

This extension was designed for Swedish/English language learner. It was designed to be like an online dictionary. It was not designed like Google Translate.

Useful features: - Instant audio player: Normally, when click to play audio in People Dictionary, it is so annoy that it will open a new tap and you have to click the audio again. With this extension, you don't ! - Right click to translate: Yea, you know what it means! - Translate in same page: You do not have to open the people dictionary in another page and type the words you are looking for. Just type 'Ctrl+Q' or click the extension icon. - Extra links to Google Translate and Tyda.se

How to use:

  • highlight a word
  • Ctrl+Q
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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Useful supplementary tool for learning Swedish
  • Powerful character is pronunciation
  • Best Swedish-English dictionary available
  • Great extension when it works
Cons
  • Hotkey (Ctrl + Q) often doesn't work
  • Extension frequently inactive
  • Multiple bugs affecting settings and usability
  • Limited to only Swedish and English
Most mentioned
  • Hotkey does not work
  • Problems with settings display
  • Best dictionary available
  • Useful for learning
Recent reviews
Doesn't work. The popup shows "try 'Ctrl+q' it's faster!!!" and nothing else.
by Dávid Takács, 2020-08-03

Does this app work on a chrome book? If so, how do I get it to work on mine? All I get is an icon (Swedish flag) in my task bar and a window that says, "Try Ctrl+q. It's faster!!!" but it isn't.
by William Joyce, 2019-09-26

A few minor issues: 1) After clicking the Settings "+", there was a warning about Flash is required, but if the user has flash globally disabled, then there's no option to enable Flash for only the extension, 2) when clicking the Settings "+", the settings display out of frame - perhaps they could display over top, in the middle of the window, 3) when the settings are displayed, if the mouse moves out of the settings area, the settings disappear, 4) when the settings are displayed, if the users changes a setting, the settings panel disappears and has to be reopened to make additional changes, 5) options/Settings is not available from the Extension Management page within the browser, 6) options is greyed-out from the context menu when right-clicking on the extension, 7) dictionary window is a little slow opening. I've only used this extension for a little while and so far I find it quite useful as a supplementary tool for helping with learning Swedish. The above-listed bugs are minor and will likely be cleared up in future releases. As it is, I thinks this is a good extension for it's purpose, it's useful, it's adequately functional. It's limited language dictionary of only Swedish and English could prove a hindrance to mass acceptance; perhaps if it was multi-language, instead of only Swedish, it would see greater adoption - users engaging in multiple languages, frequently, would be required to have several extensions like this one to perform cross-language look-ups. But, regardless, I think it works well and quite adequately serves it's intended purpose. Definitely worth 4-stars * * * * :o)
by Peter JB (PeterJB), 2019-05-01
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Extension safety

Risk impact

SweDic (Swedish - English Dictionary) requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

SweDic (Swedish - English Dictionary) has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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