VivA-app (Aanlyn)

The VivA app provides online access to a selection of Afrikaans dictionaries.

Registered VivA users have access to the following online Afrikaans dictionaries:

- Annerlike Afrikaans (Anton Prinsloo's geolectic dictionary)

- Afrikaanse Voëlnaamgroep (An Afrikaans and English list of indigenous and exotic birds)

- Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls (AWS; Pharos) (Only the word-list, list of abbreviations, and list of international geographic names and their derivations)

- Blokkiesraaiselwoordeboek (More than 168,000 lemmas for cross-word puzzles)

- Chemiewoordeboek (Chemistry dictionary)

- CTexT SkryfGoed: Afrikaans spelling checker and thesaurus

- Department of Arts and Culture's multilingual terminology lists

- Drietalige Wynindustriewoordeboek (Terminology used in the wine industry; in Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa)

- Entrepreneurskapwoordeboek (Arangies & Havenga) (Afrikaans explanatory dictionary of entrepreneurship terminology)

- Etimologiewoordeboek van Afrikaans (EWA) (More than 10,300 lemmas with etymological information)

- Fisikawoordeboek (Physics dictionary, commissioned by the SAAWK)

- HAT Aanlyn (Access to the latest edition of the explanatory dictionary HAT)

- Longman Online (English dictionary with sound files and example sentences)

- Kuberwoordeboek (Protea Boekhuis) (Afrikaans and English dictionary of cyber terminology)

- Paramediese Vakwoordeboek (Bilingual paramedic dictionary, commissioned by the SAAWK)

- Statistiekwoordeboek (Bilingual list of statistics terms)

- Sterrekundewoordeboek (Johan de Klerk) (Bilingual list of astronomy terms)

- Tweetalige Voorsetselwoordeboek (Bilingual dictionary of prepositions)

- VivA Advies (Frequently asked questions and answers about Afrikaans usage; based on enquiries addressed to VivA's language advisor)

- VivA Gesegdes (More than 250 frequently used Afrikaans idioms)

- VivA Vertaal (Bilingual wordlist of contemporary Afrikaans; based on enquiries addressed to VivA's language advisor)

- Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT) (More than 210,000 lemma from the only comprehensive explanatory dictionary of Afrikaans)

- Woordeboek van nuttige Afrikaanse kombinasies (Collocation dictionary with set expressions, word groups and collocations)

- Wat Praat Jy? (More than 20,000 idioms and set expressions)

Characteristics:

Enables searches in the online dictionaries incorporated on VivA’s website

Spelling and writing tips

Voice search (search with your voice via Google Voice (Android only)) or keyboard search

Predictive text (words appear as you type)

Suggestions (for incorrectly spelled words not found in dictionaries)

Dictionary entries you do not want to see can be switched off