[marinheiro]

I am trying to read Russian, using the Kobo Russian-English dictionary (my Russian is not good enough to use Russian-Russian). The dictionary is terrible at recognizing word endings; often when it is obvious what the nominative singular of a regular noun would be, or the infinitive of a verb, the dictionary fails to find the word and looks up another word which happens to have the same start but a few letters different at the end.

Is this a problem with all online dictionaries, that all they can do is a very simple pattern match on words, or can any have some basic knowledge of structure built in? Surely even a set of regexes could do something more towards finding the root form of a word?

Or, have I just used a bad dictionary?

Graham