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Re:Cologne-based translation startup DeepL is worth a billio... by Aachen on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:42AM (#33654494)
Similar in German. Not sure I tried side by side comparisons with Dutch but I didn't notice those being worse either.

What it (or rather, I) struggle with is single word translations. Instead of coming up with a number of options, it'll just give you one possible translation—the obvious one that you weren't looking for. On desktop you can then click on the word but those suggestions are.... let's say AI-like. Not necessarily wrong, but not like a proper enumeration of options like you'd get from a translation dictionary. I then try to give it context, but still it sometimes just insists on giving you the word you don't want and you need to look for a different translator. (For German–English there is dict.cc, but for Dutch or other languages I often end up doing a regular web search.)

Re:Cologne-based translation startup DeepL is worth a billio... by bionade24 on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:57AM (#33654728)
Deepl does offer https://linguee.de for single-word translations, explanation & contexts. Not sure why the link to it on the Deepl page is gone now.
Re:Cologne-based translation startup DeepL is worth a billio... by Aachen on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:28PM (#33658203)
Yep, though this too is auto-generated and not just an orderly list of the possible translations.