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What's New in Verba 1.3

Verba 1.3 is the biggest update since launch. Here’s what’s in it.

Word of the Day, as a notification

Verba has had a Word of the Day widget for a while. Now it can also come to you as a notification, once a day, at the time you choose. It’s off by default: turn it on in Settings → Notifications. The notification and the widget always show the same word, and tapping it opens the full entry.

Your own notes on any word

Attach a note to any word or verb: a mnemonic, where you heard it, how a friend says it. Notes are searchable from the Library tab.

Quick Capture

Hear a word you don’t know? Save it in one tap and fill in the details later, when you have a minute.

Reflexive verbs and object pronouns

Reflexive verbs now have full tables. A new screen shows the fused Galician object pronouns (mo, cho, llo) next to their Spanish equivalents, for 440 verbs.

Grammar guides, rebuilt

The guides are now sorted by level and by language, with a topic filter and links between guides and dictionary entries.

Gender Changes and Sound Changes

Two reference screens in the Study tab. Gender Changes lists the nouns that switch gender between Spanish and Galician, like la leche and o leite. Sound Changes shows seven patterns that turn Spanish words into Galician, with every dictionary word that follows each one.

When a word isn’t in Verba

Search now links straight to the Real Academia Galega, the Real Academia Española and Wiktionary, or lets you capture the word for later, without leaving the app.

And more

  • Better widgets, Shortcuts actions and Control Center buttons.
  • The Dictionary tab can sort and filter by part of speech, and Recent keeps more than three words.
  • A few hundred new words and verbs.
  • A full review of every guide, list and dictionary entry against the RAG and the RAE. How Verba checks its Galician and Spanish explains what that involves.

Thank you to every beta tester who sent feedback.

Get Verba on the App Store. It’s free and works offline.