Stichwort: German Dictionary

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Stichwort is a free German dictionary for learners, students and travellers. Look up a German word and get its meaning in your language, or type a word in your language and find the German equivalent. Everything runs on your phone, even in airplane mode.

TWO-WAY SEARCH
• German → your language and your language → German in one search box
• Automatic direction: if no German word matches, Stichwort searches the other way
• 15 dictionary languages to choose from; the English meaning is always shown as a second line

FINDS INFLECTED FORMS
• Type "ging" and get gehen (past tense); type "Häuser" and get Haus (plural)
• No umlaut keys needed: "Strasse", "Haeuser" or "schon" for schön all work
• Case-insensitive and tolerant of one typo

THE WORD CARD
• Big headword with der/die/das article colors used everywhere: der blue, die red, das green
• IPA and pronunciation through your phone's German text-to-speech voice (German voice data may need to be installed on your device)
• Numbered meanings and example sentences with translation
• Noun declension table for all 4 cases
• German verb conjugation: present, simple past, perfect, subjunctive II and imperative
• Comparative and superlative for adjectives
• Related words from the same word family

15 DICTIONARY LANGUAGES
German paired with English, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Indonesian, Vietnamese, Arabic and Hindi. Coverage is strongest for English, French, Chinese, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Italian; Portuguese, Turkish and Japanese are well covered. For Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Hindi, more translations are matched through English, and the app labels them "via English" or "approx." so you always know the source.

FAVORITES, HISTORY, WORD OF THE DAY
• Save words to favorites and browse them in a simple card mode
• Your search history stays on your device
• A word of the day to grow your German vocabulary

MADE FOR EVERY SCREEN
• 16 app languages with an in-app language picker; the dictionary language is chosen separately
• Two-pane tablet layout with results and word card side by side
• Supports large font sizes and TalkBack

PRIVACY
• Completely free: no ads, no in-app purchases, no account, no sign-in
• Language packs (one-time, 2–11 MB) are delivered through Google Play itself; English is built in.

Contains data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).