Product Description

This dictionary (Dutch-English only) is intended to help the student by providing short definitions for most words, even when found in inflected form. Some of the Dictionary's main features:

- Configurable as Kindle Primary Dictionary
- More than 70,000 entries.
- Promotional price: the best dictionary for the lowest price.

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Intructions to configure the Electronic Dutch Dictionary as Kindle Primary Dictionary (Kindle 2, 3, Keyboard):

1) Purchase it in the kindle store and wait until it is downloaded to your kindle
2) Press the Home button
3) Press the Menu button
4) Use the 5-way to underline ‘Settings’ and press 5-way to select
5) Press the Menu button
6) Use the 5-way to underline ‘Change Primary Dictionary’ and press 5-way to select
7) Use 5-way to select this dictionary, then press 5-way to select it, when it’s underlined.


Intructions to configure the Electronic Dutch Dictionary as Kindle Primary Dictionary (Kindle 4):

1) Purchase it in the kindle store and wait until it is downloaded to your kindle
2) Press the Home button
3) Press the Menu button
4) Use the 5-way to underline ‘Settings’ and press 5-way to select
5) Press the "Next Page" button until the "Dictionaries" option is shown on the screen.
6) Use the 5-way to underline ‘Dictionaries - set’ and press 5-way to select
7) Use the 5-way controller to underline the language (Dutch) and press the 5-way to select it.
8) Use 5-way to select this dictionary, then press 5-way to select it, when it’s underlined.


Once the dictionary is select as Kindle Primary Dictionary you can, while reading any text in Dutch, check the meaning of a word by moving the cursor to the word with the 5-way button.

You can also change back the Default Dictionary to the English-English one or any other you own by following the instructions above.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #533204 in eBooks
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• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Better than nothing, but a disappointment
By J. J. Gass
My Dutch is good enough to read lowbrow novels: detective fiction (a genre I read a lot of in English), chick lit, etc. I often encounter words I don't know, and though context usually enables me to follow what's going on, I'd like to be able to look up words conveniently.

This dictionary meets the convenience criterion. By setting it as the primary dictionary on my Kindle 3, I can scroll down to any word in the text, and the definition pops up (just as it does with English words using the default English dictionary).

The dictionary does a decent job with inflections. For example, if the word is a verb in the past tense (ging), it will take you to the dictionary entry for the correct verb (gaan). Separable verbs are a problem, though I think that's a difficult one for any software to solve. If you come across one of those, it's fairly easy to use the search function from within the book you're reading to find the verb in the dictionary (for example, if have a sentence like "Ik keek hem aan," you can look up "aankijken" in the dictionary, and if you don't recognize the past tense "keek," you first let the dictionary show you the main entry ("kijken"), from which you can figure out that the separable verb is "aankijken").

Idioms are another problem, but again, this is not something that I'd expect a translation dictionary to handle very well in any event.

The problem is simply that the dictionary doesn't have enough words. More often than not, when I run across a word I don't know and try to look it up, the dictionary has no entry for that word. As a result, I find that I use the dictionary more often to confirm the meaning of a word I think I know, since words I know are more likely to be basic enough to be covered.

A secondary problem is that the definitions are limited. Many words could be translated into a variety of English words, often with quite different meanings, depending on context. This dictionary tends to give you the one or two most frequent meanings.

This is better than nothing, but if I can figure out how to use another Dutch-English or NT2 Dutch-Dutch dictionary with the functionality to look up words from within a text, I'll put this one aside.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A very bad dictionary, but the only one available
By Martin
The other reviewers are not lying to you about this product. It is ridiculously bad. It only contains the most common words and usually it offers only a one-word English translation for them. It is so bad that it doesn't even tell you the article required by the Dutch nouns you look up!

There is only one reason why anyone would want to buy it: there are no other Dutch-English or Dutch-Dutch dictionaries available for Kindle. I have been quite disappointed by Amazon's indifference about the lack of dictionaries for their n.1 product. The situation is similar for German and much worse for Russian, and don't even dream about some "exotic" language such as Polish or Serbo-Croat. It's a real shame - maybe the money they earn by selling us e-books could be used to foment adaptation of existing dictionaries for Kindle? But probably I am just ingenuous.

If you happen to find a good electronic Dutch dictionary, I'll be very grateful for your advice!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
rather disappointing
By kindle 4 user
After trying this and that way and a nice chat with a kindle expert (thank you, Tamryn), it turned out that this dictionary can not be set up as default dictionary on kindle 4. That means I can not get translations in the book I am reading the way it is described. The list of dictionaries capable of that function is surprisingly short. I sincerely hope that amazon will include a lot more languages there. Can't imagine it to be too tricky. Looking up words by "typing" them with the cursor into a seperate dictionary is neither convenient nor very tempting and renders this product useless to me. Mind you, I am not talking about or rating the quality of the dictionary as such but it's inability of in-text translation.