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Esperanto dictionary for Android. It contains the whole Reta Vortaro (ReVo), the free Esperanto dictionary, with its translations into more than 170 languages, and works without Internet access.

Bona vortaro is an Esperanto dictionary for Android. It contains the whole Reta Vortaro (ReVo), the free Esperanto dictionary, with its translations into more than 170 languages, and works without Internet access.

• Search in Esperanto and in your other languages, with or without accents (cx → ĉ), and with wildcards (*ologio). • Read clear articles: definitions, examples, remarks, links between words, and the translations in your languages, the examples' too. • See which words are official (Fundamento, Official Additions), and browse the list of each Addition. • Long-press a word to look it up, whatever its form: "arbojn" finds "arbo". • Meet a word that isn't in the dictionary? The search suggests the roots and affixes it may be built from: "malsanulejestrano" = malsanulej + estr + ano. • More French translations: thousands of French words that Reta Vortaro lacks, from the French Wiktionary, with a dotted underline in the articles. • Definitions from the Esperanto Wiktionary for hundreds of words that Reta Vortaro lacks. • Words advised against by "Vortoj de la bona lingvo" (labonalingvo.org), with what to say instead: "eskalatoro", preferably "rulŝtuparo". • After each example, the work it comes from; icons for the fields. • Leaf through the dictionary from root to root, or discover a random root. • Your recent searches, day and night colours, text size.

The app's interface is in Esperanto. You can search, and read the translations, in any of the dictionary's 170+ languages.

The name is a tribute to "La bona lingvo" by Claude Piron. Bona vortaro is based on PReVo by Neil Roberts.

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Nov 6, 2026

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Esperante

Novaĵoj

  • La deveno de la vortoj, se vi ŝaltas ĝin en la agordoj: el kiuj lingvoj ili venas, laŭ la Etimologia Vortaro de Esperanto de András Rajki (2006, publika havaĵo) kaj laŭ la esperanta Vikivortaro. akvo: itala acqua, latina aqua.
  • La plej uzata traduko unue: kiam pluraj esperantaj vortoj tradukas la saman vorton, la serĉo montras unue la plej oftan, laŭ la esperanta korpuso de la Leipzig Corpora Collection (Universitato de Leipzig, CC BY): „deviner“ donas diveni antaŭ duonkompreni. La maloftaj, arkaikaj aŭ malrekomendataj vortoj venas post la aliaj („raisin“: vinbero, poste uvo), kaj la pli simpla vorto, kiun „Vortoj de la bona lingvo“ proponas, venas unue, se ĝi estas sufiĉe uzata („truck“: ŝarĝaŭto antaŭ kamiono).
  • Plibonigi la vortaron: nova paĝo, kiu klarigas, kiel korekti eraron aŭ mankon ĉe ĉiu fonto (Reta Vortaro, Vikivortaro, La Bona Lingvo), por ke la korekto profitu al ĉiuj kaj revenu en la sekva versio.
  • La divenoj de mankantaj vortoj ĉiam aperas (la agordo malaperis): pli bone propono ol „Neniu vorto troviĝis“.
  • Pli da francaj vortoj troveblaj: „virage“ (ĝirejo), „récupérer“ (reakiri), „cassoulet“ (kasuleto, malrekomendata).
  • La datumoj de Reta Vortaro de la 6-a de novembro 2026.

Plibonigoj: pli rapida unua serĉo; la agordoj en la ordo de la apo; artikolo malfermita ĉe vorto ne plu ruliĝas senbezone; pli bone horizontale, kun granda teksto kaj kun TalkBack; ligilo sen retumilo diras tion anstataŭ fermi la apon; multaj malgrandaj korektoj post du rondoj de testoj.

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What's new

  • The origins of the words, if you turn them on in the settings: which languages they come from, according to András Rajki's Etimologia Vortaro de Esperanto (2006, public domain) and the Esperanto Wiktionary. akvo: Italian acqua, Latin aqua.
  • The most used translation first: when several Esperanto words translate the same word, the search shows the most frequent one first, according to the Esperanto corpus of the Leipzig Corpora Collection (Leipzig University, CC BY): "deviner" gives diveni before duonkompreni. Rare, archaic or advised-against words come after the others ("raisin": vinbero, then uvo), and the simpler word that "Vortoj de la bona lingvo" proposes comes first if it is used enough ("truck": ŝarĝaŭto before kamiono).
  • Improve the dictionary: a new page explaining how to correct a mistake or a gap at each source (Reta Vortaro, Wiktionary, La Bona Lingvo), so that the fix helps everyone and comes back in the next version.
  • Guesses for missing words are always shown (the setting is gone): better a suggestion than "Neniu vorto troviĝis".
  • More French words found: "virage" (ĝirejo), "récupérer" (reakiri), "cassoulet" (kasuleto, advised against).
  • Reta Vortaro's data of 6 November 2026.

Improvements: a quicker first search; the settings in the order of the app; an article opened at a word no longer scrolls for nothing; better in landscape, with large text and with TalkBack; a link with no browser says so instead of closing the app; many small fixes after two rounds of tests.


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