In Verbs and Nouns' browse-window you can search for certain foreign or native words. What makes Verbs and Nouns different from a printed dictionary is that as soon as you look up a foreign word you will hear its pronounciation and see a picture of it (if the author of the dictionary provided recording and picture). You may record your own pronounciation and compare it to the model one to see how well you do. For every foreign entry you may add as many phrases or examples as you wish. With inflection-dictionaries you can take a glance at a foreign word's inflection with a single mouse-click.

Another advantage over a printed dictionary is the ability to put words into groups - simply by dragging them into your custom groups. This way, it is easy to learn the words that belong to each other in case you want to study words thematically .

If you use the program "Language Toolkit Reader" to study lessons in a foreign language you will just have to click on a foreign word contained in that lesson's new vocabulary list and the appropriate Verbs and Nouns dictionary will open and show you all the information about that particular word.

Verbs and Nouns can present the foreign words contained in a certain group one after the other, including their pronounciation and picture. You can also run the presentation in a loop in the background while working with other programs: You will hear the foreign words over and over again to memorize them.

You won't have to purchase special grammar books to study compounds anymore! Use the built in group-builder to have Verbs and Nouns look up all those compounds and automatically put them in one group.

Adding new foreign words is fairly easy due to the integrated rule-generator. You may enter different meanings, phrases and example-sentences, pronounciation-recordings and pictures as you wish. This way you may enlarge the dictionaries you frequently use. You can compare it with your friend's or collegue's dictionaries and add all the words your friends added which you don't have yet.

What makes Verbs and Nouns much better than any printed dictionary ever is its integrated exercise-engine.

You don't have to stick with one boring exercise, but you may practise almost every aspect of a foreign word contained in the dictionary. You can translate every single foreign word from native to foreign or vice versa or do inflection exercises; you set the case, time and mode. You want to work with a foreign word's pronounciation or picture? No problem at all, just choose "voice->translation", hear the foreign word and type it in, or "picture -> inflection" and you will be presented a picture of a thing and have to give its translation in the case you set! You may also do any exercise in a quiz-style, q.e. you just point to the right answer contained in a word-list and click on it.

Or would you like to chose among the three word-games that come with Verbs and Nouns? Play the good old "hangman"-game to improve your knowledge of foreign words, build anagrams (bring the letters of a foreign word into the right order) or do quasi-anagrams, that is form as many foreign words from the letters contained in one foreign word as you can.

All foreign words you answered wrong are contained in that entry. By a single mouse-click you may transfer them into one group and repeat them over and over again - whenever you want to. The thread-feature enables you to return to an exercise session at the exact point you quit the last time you worked with the program. Verbs and Nouns also automatically stores the latest number of foreign words that you still get wrong in a special "memorize" group. This will also help you to repeat those words until you learned them. Last but not least, Verbs and Nouns helps people who like to mark foreign words they already know in a printed book in that it automatically puts these words on a special list.

Verbs and Nouns Lookup uses dictionaries based upon the Verbs and Nouns dictionaries.

If you use inflection-dictionaries, Lookup is able to perform spell-checks on any foreign text of that language. If a word is not contained in the dictionaries or spelled the wrong way, you will see it in red color and highlighted.

Because Lookup "knows" most of the inflected forms of a foreign word, you may also look up any inflected foreign word in a text simply by ctrl-clicking onto that word and Lookup will find its basic form by itself. Lookup can also perform word-by-word-translations providing you with a word list which contains the inflected and the basic form plus the foreign words' translation - alphabetically sorted, if you wish.

This is ideal for teachers who want to prepare foreign texts for their classes for reading and hand out word-lists so their students won't have to look up every new word.