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Verba · Galician · Spanish

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An iPhone dictionary and verb conjugator that works with zero connectivity, for the small number of us living between English, Spanish, and Galician.

Get Verba See how it works

Everything works offline.

Everything ships inside the app: lookup, conjugation tables, and grammar guides all work in airplane mode, on the bus, or in a village with no signal.

One dictionary, start to finish.

Every screen in Verba, in the order you'd use them.

Dictionary

Look up a word.

Every entry carries IPA, gender marks and examples in English, Galician and Spanish.

  • Masculine, feminine and plural forms, with the gender spelled out
  • Links to the RAG, the RAE and Wiktionary, already on the right word
  • Save any word to review later
  • Recent history, so today's lookups are one tap away

Verbs

See how it conjugates.

Regular verbs come from the conjugation engine. Galician irregulars are checked by hand against the RAG, Spanish ones spot-checked against the RAE, and every irregular form is marked.

  • Indicative: present, preterite, imperfect, future, and conditional
  • Subjunctive: present and past
  • Imperative
  • Gerund and participle
  • Reflexive verbs, pronouns and accent shifts included
  • Object pronouns, with the fused Galician forms (mo, cho, llo) built for you

On the roadmap: verbal periphrases, pronunciation audio, and more. See what's next →

Practice

Practice until it sticks.

Review saved words and verbs with a Leitner schedule and a daily goal.

  • Words, verbs, or both
  • Galician, Spanish, or both
  • Choose the tenses you want to drill
  • Everything, your saved words, or a single theme
  • A daily goal and a progress bar

Typing

Type the answer.

Type the form instead of turning a card over. The letters that differ come back underlined, with the rule that builds the form.

  • One more attempt on a miss, with the rule that builds the form
  • The letters that differ from the real form, underlined
  • Accents forgiven, and corrected anyway
  • Only a first-time answer counts as known

Widgets

It meets you on your home screen.

A new word on your home screen, in a widget, at a glance.

  • Small, medium and large sizes, plus the Lock Screen
  • Choose which language leads
  • Rotate through all words, verbs only, or one theme
  • Tap to open the full entry
  • Control Center buttons to add a word or start a review

Added by you

Add the ones you pick up.

Extend the dictionary with words you pick up along the way, complete with your own notes.

  • Add verbs with the forms you know; blank cells stay blank until you fill them
  • Your words come up in review like any other
  • Back up your words and notes to a file, and restore them later
  • Suggest a word or send a correction from inside the app

The app's interface is in English for now. The dictionary itself is Galician, Spanish and English, and translating the interface is on the roadmap.

Words that stay with you.

Shortcuts & Control Center

Look words up without opening the app at all.

Grammar guides

Short offline guides to the tricky corners: Galician contractions, object pronouns, demonstratives, and when Spanish wants the subjunctive. More on the way.

Search any form

Type a conjugated form like fun or vas and land on its verb, gerunds and participles included.

Look up from any app

Select a word in Safari, Books or any other app and share it to Verba. The matches open in a sheet, right over the page.

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Free, now and always. Works offline from the first launch.

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