English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary

This is such a great product. Do not worry about the time it was created, it still helps me translate new songs, YouTube videos, and the news.In the beginning, there is the case endings for nouns, adjectives, and a list of their exceptions. It teaches you a bit of Russian spelling rules and all you really need to know about verb conjugation (past, present, future. If there is ever a word with irregular case endings or verb conjugation, it will tell you on the specific definition of the word.Each verb will tell you the imperfective and perfective version, so you don't have to search it separately. Most adjectives will tell you if they are the short version or not, or if they are the predicate version. The words have accents on them to signify where the stress will be.Some words, especially prepositions, will have long definitions because they give you so many examples of how they can be used outside of what you would think. If words have a different literary definition/use, it will tell you.Lastly, the very back has the names of all places you can think of, both present and historic. It has the names of countries, of course, but also territories and geographical features such as famous rivers, mountains, seas, cities, etc. There are also the names of famous people.Whether you are A-1 or C-1, this will help you significantly in translating things like old Russian classic literature and learning the basic grammar of the language. Get this book today!!!

This translator contains very detailed translations, and multiple translations and idioms that are reciprocal, meaning an entry in the English to Russian section will also appear in the Russian to English section. (Yes there are 2 halves of the text, both comprehensive)

I use this dictionary every week when I tutor a person from eastern Ukraine where Russian is spoken. This dictionary has been much more efficient in helping my student learn english words than using a translation app on phone, and it has most words that we need translated.

I'm a beginner in Russian, but I've been a beginner for quite a while now.This dictionary is easy to use - sometimes I just read parts of it for fun, to try to expand my vocabulary. It has accent marks - a big help for beginners. I also like that it does not combine related words into a huge, single entry: it keeps separate words separate. It annotates entries' Genitive case, perfective/imperfective and plurals. It has multiple translations for many words, and often has exemplary phrases to show the different connotations. At the beginning are some rules and patterns for declensions and conjugations. At the end is a glossary of many proper nouns.One cool thing I like to do with this dictionary is look up new words I learn, in order to find other words with the same root or stem: this helps reinforce learning the original word, and also learn some additional, related words.On the con side: it is 'only' about 1000 pages, so it doesn't have every word in it (karma, saute), but you can try Google Translate for those (not that Google Translate is so great). It doesn't have a history of language changes from 1917.

It's pretty good and useful, but I have two problems.I just adopted two kids from Russia. They were using a word that sounded like a vulgarity that I know from spanish. I couldn't find it in the russian to english section. I looked it up in the english to russian section, and found that there was no vulgarity at all! I need to know the words. Being present in a dictionary doesn't mean you approve of using them. Look up the english word for the male sex organ, and you don't even find the russian word for it. The only thing this book gives would be literally translated back: "male sex organ" -- it does not even give the russian word. (I bet there is one.)Lots of verbs have irregular stems. If I have a conjugated verb and want to find out what it means in english, how am I supposed to do that? For example, ride. The infinitive is (something like) Ekhat. First person, "I ride", is "Ya edy". Look up "edy" and fail to find the word. Other prefixes are indexed. It should index irregular stems!

This is recommend by many, and for many reasons! The extensive amount of effort that went into producing this book is extremely evident. I honestly couldn't imagine using any other for my Russian language journey!I purchased this copy used, and my seller was spot on about the condition. It's in fabulous shape!

I like this dictionary very much. It has been a good companion since I began learning Russian. I have found, that once I got down the letters and some basic words, I wanted to look up the words for things before I got to those things in my grammar books. Also, when watching a tv show that has some Russian in it, I like to try and figure out how to spell what they have said and then look it up. Also, I used this book to look up the names of things in my house, I then labeled those items with their Russian word, and this helped me to quickly add words to my vocabulary. If you are going to try and learn Russian, I strongly recommend you go ahead and buy this dictionary at the beginning, as it makes the learning experience a lot more fun.