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Originally Posted by Ceiyne
I loaded your dictionary onto my Kobo this morning and so far it looks great. All of the words I tested were found, including ones that weren't in my old J-E dictionary.
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Sorry for my late reply! Anyway, I'm glad it's working well for you. And to answer your earlier question: yes, it contains the entire English JMDict.
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Originally Posted by Ceiyne
The conjugated verbs I looked up also generally found the proper entry for the dictionary form. This is a huge improvement from what I was using before!
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Ah, I'm glad! Yeah, Kobo doesn't have any way to automatically do that, so it's up to the dictionary to provide duplicate entries that match on the conjugated forms. So that's what I did: all verbs and い-adjectives have full duplicate entries for all their base conjugated forms.
And it *mostly* works, but indeed it seems that it doesn't always work for some reason. I'm not entirely sure why. You're example of 下って is pretty typical, where there's already a separate entry that matches it exactly. But what's weird is that (as described above) there's *also* an exact "下って" matching entry that's just a duplicate of 下る, so in theory 下る should show up as well. But it doesn't.
It still works well enough that I haven't bothered to investigate what's going on. But at some point I'd like to figure out if there's anything I can do on the dictionary side of things to fix that, or if it's just something unavoidable about how Kobo does things.