French User Reviews

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Excellent

This is my most used dictionary for years! The usage examples are excellent and extensive. Pronunciation of main words and primary example phrases works, but secondary pronunciation links (pronunciation of the English definition for a French word or the French explanation of an English word) don’t. Comments on idiomatic usages and grammatical nuances are explained in detail and provided with many examples.
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Please fix audio bug

Some of the audio files are missing from the server.

So bad

So bad

Excellent App

This app covers a wide range of vocabulary: it is, after all Larousse’s “unabridged” French-English dictionary! So high marks for that, as it often has that obscure word that the others don’t (the only other recourse is apps like ‘Le Petit Robert’, ‘Le Robert Mobile’ or ‘Larousse Dictionnaire de français’ if you can read French reasonably well).
Unfortunately, it has omitted verb conjugations which the standard Larousse English-French dictionary treats very well with full conjugations for every verb.
It has links to high-quality sound files from native speakers for all the headwords and for a very large number of illustrative phrases and sentences. This is very useful for refining one’s pronunciation.
This app would score a top 5 if it included verb conjugations, especially considering its low price. Highly recommended.
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Possible fraud. Possible antiquity.

This might be a fraud. Only translates single words. MP3 audio of pronunciation is not working. I would like my money back.

Please fix the pronunciation files on the Larousse server

Excellent content, but there is a problem with Larousse's server: many pronunciation files are missing, so you get constant error messages while using the app. This should be fixed. Otherwise, people are probably better off buying the cheaper Larousse English/French dictionary, because the content is very similar and you get many more pronunciations. Also, in the next version please add full-text search and the ability to add notes to bookmarks.
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Very Useful

This is the best French dictionary app by far that I have used as concerns the content. The entries have helpful examples nicely laid out by semantic function. Please, please update this app to run smoothly on the latest OS!

Needs an update

DO NOT BUY ! The majority of pronunciations do not work, the app is not optimized for IOS13, and crashes often. Disappointed Larousse charges so much for this app and will not fix these issues after years.
Instead use wordreference. It is free and has much better translations. Use Google translate if you need quick offline translations.
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Amazing French-English dictionary...especially for advanced speakers

I have been using this dictionary for close to three years and can say that is indispensable for non native speakers who want to communicate at a high level. Unfortunately, I think that some issues with the audio feature is causing people to ignore all the utility of this app. To be clear, I am am fluent in French, living in Francophone Africa and providing medical care in that context. However, being a non native speaker I still frequently encounter words I don’t know (going to a hardware store, for example) or come upon times where the nuance of a word/phrase is very important. That’s where this dictionary is helpful because it not only gives the French-English translation but also gives the different translation in various contexts. For example the word “nut” can mean a food, a piece of hardware, or my crazy neighbor, each of which will have a different French word for translation. This dictionary will give you all translations. Additionally, we sometimes have specific phrases using said word that aren’t straightforward to translate, like “He’s a fitness nut.” This dictionary usually gives you an equivalent phrase. In reverse, it will give you the many different contexts/translations of a French words and often includes common idioms under a given word with their non literal translation. A language beginner may not appreciate all the information here, because at that level one only needs basic translations and speaks in a more limited context. However with time one finds themselves coming across a whole variety of contexts that require a tool to understand the breadth of the French language. As someone who picked up this app towards the beginning of French studies and now has to use French for daily life tasks as well as in academic contexts, I cannot more highly recommend this app.
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Very good

Need update to work smoothly on IOS 12 platform
The keyboard look very ugly on iPhone as it’s very big.

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