ABBYY Lingvo - x3 Quick Reference Card
Quick Reference Card
For info about phrase books
see page 13
Come si
chiama?
Installing and Activating the Program ....................................................2
ABBYY Lingvo x3 Main Window ................................................................2
Quick Lookup .............................................................................................3
Lookup and Search .....................................................................................4
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Learning Languages with ABBYY
Grammar in ABBYY Lingvo x3 ................................................................ 12
Phrase Books ........................................................................................... 13
Working with Dictionaries ........................................................................ 14
Keyboard Shortcuts................................................................................ 16
Technical Support .................................................................................... 16
Lingvo Tutor® .................................. 10
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Installing and Activating the Program
Quick Lookup
Installation
Place the ABBYY Lingvo х3 disk into the DVD-ROM drive and follow the setup
program instructions. If the setup program does not start automatically, select
Start->Control Panel->Add or Remove Programs or manually run the AutoRun.exe
file from the ABBYY Lingvo х3 disk.
Activation
Activation is a fast and simple procedure which turns your trial copy into a full
version of the software.
To activate your copy of ABBYY Lingvo, select Help->Activate and follow the
instructions provided by the Activation Wizard.
ABBYY Lingvo x3 Main Window
Selec ts
sourc e langu age
Put dict ionary on/
remove dic tionary
from boo kshelf
Shows
inflec ted forms
Changes
transl ation
direction
Selec ts
target l anguage
Selec ts bookshelf
Dictio naries on
current b ookshelf
List of wo rds from
all dicti onarie s on
current b ookshelf
Full entries
To see a full entry for a word or phrase with translations, usage examples,
and synonyms, select the word or phrase in the text and press Ctrl+Ins+Ins or
Ctrl+C+C.
Press C trl+Ins+Ins
Brief entries
To see a brief entry for a word, simply point the mouse cursor to the word you
wish to look up. A brief dictionary entry will open in a pop-up window.
Search f ield
Search es
entire te xt of all
dictionaries
Shows his tory
Virtu al keyboard
Web searc h
Opens tr anslation
price c alculat or
Wikipe dia searc h Launche s
ABBY Y Lingvo Tutor
You can select keyboard shortcuts for the source and target languages
in Tools->Language and Dictionary Settings...->Languages).
Click thi s link to see
the full en try
Click thi s link to enab le/
disable q uick look up
and to sel ect key board
short cuts
There are several ways to look up words while you are reading a text.
To choose a lookup method, right-click the ABBYY Lingvo icon
on the taskbar and select Options.
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Lookup and Search
Looking up a word in the main window
Looking up words in ABBYY Lingvo is easy! Simply type your word or phrase in
the search field and click or press Enter. You can also type inflected
words (refer to page 12 for more information about inflected forms).
Press Enter
If there is no separate entry for a word or phrase, ABBYY Lingvo will try to find the
appropriate translations inside other entries (refer to page 7 for more information
about full-text search).
If you type a word incorrectly, ABBYY Lingvo will display a list of spelling suggestions.
Entry window
The entry window displays the entries and the list of dictionaries in which the
entries have been found. To jump to an entry in a particular dictionary, click the
name of the desired dictionary in the right-hand pane.
Each entry includes a headword (i.e. the word or phrase you are looking up), its
possible translations, its pronunciation, the loudspeaker button (if a sound recording
is available), usage examples, synonyms, and antonyms.
Tip: You can open any entry in a separate window by holding down the Shift key
and clicking the headword of the desired entry.
Shows/hid es exampl es
and cros s-reference s
Copie s headwor d
into sea rch fiel d
Adds word
to ABBY Y Lingvo Tutor
Shows/hid es
navigat ion pane
List of di ctiona ries
in which tr anslat ions
have been f ound
Expan ds entry
Headword
Pronunci ation
Sound
Translation
Synonyms
Usage
examples
Entries
Short n ame
of dicti onary
Looking up words in online dictionaries
In ABBYY Lingvo х3, you can look up words not only in the dictionaries that are
installed locally on your hard drive, but also in the online dictionaries available on
the ABBYY website (Internet connection required).
Instal ls the dic tionar y
in trial mo de
Need to look up a word inside an entry?
Simply double-click on the word to open its corresponding entry.
To make an online dictionary available offline, download it by rightclicking on its name and selecting Download Dictionary from the
pop-up menu.
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