Shored:Â
Simple Hypertext Offline Russian-English Dictionary
What is Shored?
Shored is a free Android Russian-English and English-Russian dictionary, that offers 55000 russian words with their accented declensions for nouns and accented conjugations for verbs, with most of the times examples of sentence and translation.
It does not require internet connection so its data are cramed into 5M, quite few memory for an Android application. The navigation is intuitive and mimick web browsing.
This app is available for free!
Browsing
There are several ways of browsing the dictionary:
by alphabetic order: used as a reference, like in a paper dictionary
by frequency: used to discover the basics of the Russian language
by categories: the 6000 most common words are grouped, used to improve one's knowledge of the Russian language
by direct search: when looking for a specific word, either in latin or cyrillic characters depending on the virtual keyboard configuration
Source and references
The origin of the dictionary is OpenRussian. It was also the source of inspiration for the graphic design.
OpenRussian is itself derived from a series of collaborative web sites:
Wiktionary for attributes and flexions
Dicipedia for translations
Starling for flexions
Tatoeba for examples