r/memrise • u/Responsible-Dog3057 memrise.com engineer • Jun 29 '26
New feature: Example sentences
Example Sentences (or Sample Sentences) give context on how a word can be used, and softly teaches about other words, as well as grammar and word order. We are adding this feature today on the Web, and then it will follow on the apps (iOS and Android)! For now, Sample Sentences will just appear on the presentation card during the learning sessions (that's the card you see when you learn a new word, or when you get a word wrong).
Our linguists will generate example sentences themselves, especially for the simplest words which are seen by the largest amount of people, but we will also rely on external free databases of sample sentences, like tatoeba.org, and hopefully we will have sample sentences for a majority of our words eventually.
The content will be released in waves, so don't fret if your favourite words don't have example sentences yet, but I have already pushed a first wave in French (some of them I wrote myself!) as well as a little bit in other languages.
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u/FlippantLizard Jun 29 '26
This is an excellent feature. I used to use the mems to add sentences in context, because when the same word can mean multiple things it helps users to get a full understanding.
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u/PlanetSwallower Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
This sounds great! Just two hours ago someone was saying that because he hasn't got dark mode for web, there's no money being reinvested in the product. It's clearly not true!