Reverso Translate Review

For learners, not just tourists

It shows you real sentences, not just one answer

Most apps give you one translation and stop. Reverso gives you seven — because 'get over' means different things in different sentences. You can get over an illness, get over a fence, or get over a breakup, and French uses a different word for each. So Reverso shows you real sentences from actual books, movies and websites, in English and French side by side, with the important words highlighted. You read a few and pick the translation that matches your situation. The star saves a sentence for later, the speaker reads it out loud.

Every form of a verb, one tap away

Verbs change shape: I get, he gets, yesterday we got. Tap the Conjugation tab and Reverso lays out every form of the verb in a big table, each with a speaker button so you can hear how it sounds. With the Definition and Synonyms tabs up top and the Vocabulary and Learn sections at the bottom, this is really a studying app that happens to translate. The free version limits how many example sentences you see and keeps suggesting you make an account. The paid version, about $5 a month, removes the limits and works without internet.

A traveler's question in Hindi comes out right

We switched the pair to English → Hindi and started with the kind of sentence you'd actually need on a trip: 'How do I get to the fish market?' Reverso answered 'मैं मछली बाजार में कैसे पहुंचूं?' — a natural way to ask it, phrased the way a Hindi speaker would. For everyday traveler questions — directions, food, prices — Reverso's Hindi holds up fine.

Then we tried the idiom 'Get over it'

'Get over it' means 'stop being upset about it.' The one-line translation at the top missed that: 'इससे छुटकारा मिले' means roughly 'get rid of it,' which isn't the same thing. But scroll down and the Dictionary gets it right: it splits the phrase into its two real meanings — recovering from an illness (उबरना) and moving on after being upset (भूल जाना / माफ़ करना) — each with an example sentence and audio. So the quick translation is shaky with idioms in Hindi, but the dictionary underneath knows exactly what they mean. The side-by-side real sentences that make Reverso special in French still don't appear for Hindi, and from the app's own language list: Hindi and Vietnamese are offered, Icelandic is not.