Trova: find an ASL sign by how it looks

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Saw a sign and don't know the word? Describe what you saw.

Describe it in your own words

The questions below get filled in for you to check and change. Or skip this and answer them yourself.

What did the hand look like?

Start with the fingers that stand out.

Where was it?

How did it move?

One hand or two?

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A lookup tool for ASL learners. It is not a translator and it does not recognize signing. Check every result against the video, and ask a Deaf signer or teacher when you can.

Free and non-commercial. No ads, no accounts, no tracking.

Descriptions typed into the box are sent to Google to interpret and are not stored.

Sign data comes from ASL-LEX 2.0, used under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Videos belong to ASL-LEX and open on their own pages. No video is hosted here.

Other English meanings come from ASL Signbank, Haskins Lab, Yale University.

Sehyr, Z. S., Caselli, N., Cohen-Goldberg, A. M., & Emmorey, K. (2021). The ASL-LEX 2.0 Project. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 26(2), 263-277.