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WordDivan is an online dictionary which uses the Yandex Dictionary API to populate the sites dictionary entries.

One unique aspect about WordDivan is its utilization of information about Russian verbs. In Russian, each verb has a perfective and an imperfective form, for instance говорить (to speak) and поговорить (to speak for a short amount of time). These two forms are known as a verb's aspect.

The Yandex translation site and other online dictionaries contain little to no information about a given verb's aspect. However, the Yandex API includes information about each verb's aspect, and WordDivan uses this information to clearly mark verbs - yellow for imperfective and blue for perfective. See below for an example.

WordDivan's main purpose is to serve as a language learning tool, which allows users to look up words, as well as save them to vocabulary lists. These lists can only be made if a user creates a profile.

After registration, users can begin to create vocabulary lists and view them on their profile page.

The user can then click on a specific list and view the words saved in it. Below is an example of a list called 'animals.'

You can create and add words to your lists on each dictionary entry page. This component uses Vercel's SWR to render client side, so that the vocabulary lists are updated as they are created and words are added.

This project uses Cypress to run E2E tests.