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title: "Real example sentences per word · NoaLingua"
description: "Every word card carries bilingual example sentences drawn from the Tatoeba corpus — real sentences written by people, not generated to order."
url: "https://noalingua.com/answers/example-sentences-for-a-word/"
language: "en"
modified: "2026-09-08"
license: "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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Answer

# NoaLingua shows real sentences, not invented ones

Bilingual examples from a corpus, with audio where it exists

Each card carries real bilingual example sentences from the Tatoeba corpus, read from disk once the pack has downloaded. They are sentences people actually wrote, with a translation beside each, rather than examples generated to demonstrate the word.

Short answer Real corpus sentences with translations, on the card, offline.

Corpus sentences are the opposite trade: they are uneven, occasionally odd, and real. Seeing the same word in three sentences somebody genuinely wrote tells you more about its range than one perfect sentence does.

### Where they come from, and the attribution

Examples come from Tatoeba, which is CC BY licensed, and the attribution is published on the data sources page along with every other dataset the product uses.

That page also names one dataset that is deliberately not bundled: the Kelly frequency lists, whose CC BY-NC-SA licence forbids commercial redistribution. It is listed as excluded rather than quietly omitted.

Get NoaLingua — free, and every feature included

Dual subtitles on YouTube and Netflix, clickable words on any page and in any PDF, shadowing and spaced review — 28 languages, no account, and your deck stays on your own machine.

[Add to Chrome — Free Add to Chrome](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ocimolffhgpeeoifjpjhgikgfbnmlkdh) Opens the Chrome Web Store listing **NoaLingua — beyond dual subs: video, web, PDF** — free, no account, Chrome 138 or newer.

- **Free** — every feature, not a trial
- **No account** — nothing to sign up for
- **Two dropdowns** — that is the whole setup

## More questions people ask NoaLingua

Do the examples work offline?

Yes, once the pack has downloaded. Examples, definitions, IPA and grammar tables are all read from disk after that.

Are the examples translated?

Yes — Tatoeba is a bilingual corpus, so each example comes with a translation rather than being machine-translated on the spot.

What if a word has no examples?

The section is simply absent for that word. Nothing is generated to fill the space, for the same reason the contextual meaning line is omitted when the evidence does not converge.

## Where this is documented on NoaLingua

[Every dataset and its licence Tatoeba, Wiktionary, UniMorph and the one deliberately left out.](https://noalingua.com/data-sources/)[The seven sources behind the card Cheapest first, all from disk, and the three that sit behind one setting.](https://noalingua.com/features/word-lookup/)[Which languages have example sentences The coverage matrix, capability by capability.](https://noalingua.com/supported-languages/)

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- [Is there a Chrome extension with an offline dictionary?](https://noalingua.com/answers/offline-dictionary-chrome-extension/)

## Try it on the next thing you were going to watch anyway.

Free, with every feature. No account, nothing to cancel, and your deck stays on your machine.

[Add to Chrome — Free Add to Chrome](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ocimolffhgpeeoifjpjhgikgfbnmlkdh) Opens the Chrome Web Store listing **NoaLingua — beyond dual subs: video, web, PDF** — free, no account, Chrome 138 or newer.

- [Free, and not a trial Every feature on the free plan — both PDF modes, shadowing, all 30 practice formats.](https://noalingua.com/pricing/)
- [No account, no email Nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel. There is no login screen at all.](https://noalingua.com/privacy/)
- [Two dropdowns to set up Pick what you are learning and what you want translations in. That is the whole setup.](https://noalingua.com/getting-started/)
- [Your words stay yours Export to Anki, CSV, a spreadsheet or a full JSON profile — free on every plan.](https://noalingua.com/docs/export-import/)

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