West-Fries (Frysk) has roughly 160,000 headwords in the full academic lexicon, but for everyday use, learners need a fast, searchable, mobile-friendly dictionary that gives pronunciation alongside the translation. That is what this dictionary does.

The LearnFrisian dictionary covers more than 8,000 of the most-used Frisian words, with:

• Nederlandse vertalingen (primair)
• Nederlandse vertalingen (secundair, voor Nederlandstalige leerlingen)
• Inheems luidsprekergeluid over hoogfrequente woorden
• Voorbeeldzinnen voor gewone woorden
• Part of speech (naamwoord, werkwoord, bijvoeglijk naamwoord, voorzetsel, enz.)
• Meervoudige vormen voor zelfstandig naamwoorden en geconjugeerde aantekeningen voor onregelmatige werkwoorden

Voor beginners: Begin met de 150 essentiële Friese woorden rather than the full dictionary. The essential-words page is a curated first-vocabulary list. Once you know those 150 words well, you will use the dictionary to fill in gaps as you encounter them in lessons.

Voor gemiddeld lerenden: Gebruik het woordenboek naast de Friese MasterCourse. When a word appears in a lesson and you want deeper context (plural forms, usage examples, related words), look it up here.

Voor Nederlandse sprekers die Fries leren: The dictionary returns Dutch translations alongside English ones, so you can look up a Frisian word and get both languages at once.

Voor erfgenamen: Many older words and spellings are included. Note that written Frisian standardized its orthography in the 20th century – pre-1950 texts sometimes use spelling variants not recognized by modern spell-checkers.

Noord-Fries en Saterland Fries are related but distinct minority languages spoken in Germany. LearnFrisian focuses exclusively on West Frisian, the variety spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland.

Oud-Fries (spoken approximately 1150-1550 AD) is an ancestor of modern West Frisian but is mutually unintelligible with it.

Gesproken dialect variatie. West Frisian has regional dialects – Klaysk, Waldfrysk, and island dialects from Terschelling and Schiermonnikoog. This dictionary reflects standard modern West Frisian as codified by the Fryske Akademy.

The two most-linked Frisian dictionaries online are Lexilogos (static wordlists, no audio or context) and Glosbe (machine-translated, often wrong for low-resource languages like Frisian). For a learner, a dictionary needs pronunciation audio, English translations, and a mobile-friendly interface. This dictionary provides all three.

No standalone Frisian dictionary app currently exists on iOS or Android with high-quality audio and English translations. The LearnFrisian dictionary is mobile-optimized and works in the browser on any device without installation.

West Frisian is spoken by about 470,000 people in the Dutch province of Friesland. North Frisian is spoken by about 8,000 people in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Saterland Frisian is spoken by fewer than 2,000 people in Lower Saxony. All three descend from the same medieval Frisian but are not mutually intelligible.

As of 2026, Google Translate supports West Frisian (language code fy), but quality is inconsistent for longer sentences. For individual word lookups, this dictionary is more reliable.

Stuur suggesties via de Contactpagina. New entries are reviewed against the Fryske Akademy corpus before being added.