Google Translate is an excellent utility but it's weak for doing anything more than a few words as it will almost always screw up the syntax. Don't ever take the translation verbatim as it's not good enough.
Nice Translator is an alternative and comparing results from it and Google Translate may help in finding valid syntax. As with Google, using the translation without reviewing it will only insult your readers.
Reverso's Conjugator does an excellent job of providing conjugations of German verbs. With German, there is a different pronoun used for 'you' for most people (Sie - formal) as opposed to 'you' for friends (e.g. 'du' - informal) and a different conjugation for a verb is required for each. Translators will not typically be of much use for this and Reverso's Conjugator is very good at it. The Conjugator also provides a dictionary.
Wörterbuch is an excellent source of synonyms as it doesn't just translate a word and give a brief definition, it also provides a large number of synonyms, also with brief definitions. If you use this to double-check the results from Google Translate you will trap a great many errors. Google is good but it is far from perfect.
German Rhyming Dictionary is an interesting tool. I haven't used it previously but it does find rhymes even if it's somewhat cumbersome in how it does it. For example, I searched for rhymes for 'machen' and told it to rhyme on five letters. The result was 174 words. The output is just a raw list of words but that's more than you would have otherwise and you may find it useful. (The online version is free but the offline version is not.)
Ich hoffe diese werde Sie hilfen!
Nice Translator is an alternative and comparing results from it and Google Translate may help in finding valid syntax. As with Google, using the translation without reviewing it will only insult your readers.
Reverso's Conjugator does an excellent job of providing conjugations of German verbs. With German, there is a different pronoun used for 'you' for most people (Sie - formal) as opposed to 'you' for friends (e.g. 'du' - informal) and a different conjugation for a verb is required for each. Translators will not typically be of much use for this and Reverso's Conjugator is very good at it. The Conjugator also provides a dictionary.
Wörterbuch is an excellent source of synonyms as it doesn't just translate a word and give a brief definition, it also provides a large number of synonyms, also with brief definitions. If you use this to double-check the results from Google Translate you will trap a great many errors. Google is good but it is far from perfect.
German Rhyming Dictionary is an interesting tool. I haven't used it previously but it does find rhymes even if it's somewhat cumbersome in how it does it. For example, I searched for rhymes for 'machen' and told it to rhyme on five letters. The result was 174 words. The output is just a raw list of words but that's more than you would have otherwise and you may find it useful. (The online version is free but the offline version is not.)
Ich hoffe diese werde Sie hilfen!
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