Oxford-Duden German Dictionary: German-English / English-German (1990)

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Over the past decade, the Oxford-Duden family of German-English dictionaries has established itself as a world leader, recommended for teachers, translators, and students. Backed up by the unique language databanks maintained and continuously expanded by Oxford University Press and the Dudenverlag (Germany's leading language reference publisher), every title in the range provides a more accurate, up-to-date, and complete picture of contemporary German than has ever been possible before.Now comes The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary, the flagship of the line, in a major new edition. Here one will find unmatched coverage of German worldwide (including Swiss and Italian German), incorporating the spelling changes ratified in 1996. It features: -- Over 260,000 words and phrases-- Over 450,000 translations-- Thousands of example sentences illustrate real language in use-- All-new innovative in-text boxes cover topics such as nationalities, jobs, greetings, and apologizing, to help with usage, construction, and vocabulary building-- New preferred German spellings are given throughout-- Helpful boxes on a wide variety of subjects including grammar, numerical expressions, weights and measures, and a guide to letter writing-- Numerous full-page mapsAcclaimed by language professionals the world over, the unabridged Oxford-Duden is the most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date dictionary of German and English.… (more)

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Before the onset of COVID-19, I was tutoring at the library (adult literacy, English as a second language, and GED prep). Many of my students were from Mexico or Central America, so when the libraries shut down, I decided to study Spanish on Duolingo. I thought it would be helpful if I could discuss abstract concepts in basic Spanish, rather than with arm waving.

Then I decided that I might as well refresh German. It was my college minor, and at one time I had enough German to get me through several trips to Germany, as well as central European countries where I did not know the local languages. Where the German lessons on Duolingo are particularly obtuse, and online translators offer no help, someone on the Duolingo German forum will inevitably quote Duden. So I grabbed this when I spotted it at Powell's. It is 30 years out of date, and it is a real doorstop, but i think it will be useful. In addition to the dictionary, which will hopefully help me sort out those notorious German compound words, it contains reference sections for weights and measures, telling time, etc.

oregonobsessionz | Feb 7, 2022 |

First in an occasional series - "Reference works and other books I didn't READ cover-to-cover per se but used extensively enough during a certain period of time to comment on their merits." I am going to be a lexicographer, after all, I can hardly ignore the dictionary. So okay, this is on here because it was my German-English dictionary during my stay in Austria in 2008, and as you'd expect from Oxford, it is quite solid - although really bilingual dictionaries have quite little to do with the OED. It was a bit weak on colloquialism for a dictionary of it's physical heft, even one that's meant to be "pocket" - I guess I feel that way because of all the words that weren't in it in the German novels I was reading. "Gleichgültig," we are officially enemies. But the number of conventional phrases that are usefully translated under word headings and the grammar section at the back are both joys to behold. (

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Over the past decade, the Oxford-Duden family of German-English dictionaries has established itself as a world leader, recommended for teachers, translators, and students. Backed up by the unique language databanks maintained and continuously expanded by Oxford University Press and the Dudenverlag (Germany's leading language reference publisher), every title in the range provides a more accurate, up-to-date, and complete picture of contemporary German than has ever been possible before.Now comes The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary, the flagship of the line, in a major new edition. Here one will find unmatched coverage of German worldwide (including Swiss and Italian German), incorporating the spelling changes ratified in 1996. It features: -- Over 260,000 words and phrases-- Over 450,000 translations-- Thousands of example sentences illustrate real language in use-- All-new innovative in-text boxes cover topics such as nationalities, jobs, greetings, and apologizing, to help with usage, construction, and vocabulary building-- New preferred German spellings are given throughout-- Helpful boxes on a wide variety of subjects including grammar, numerical expressions, weights and measures, and a guide to letter writing-- Numerous full-page mapsAcclaimed by language professionals the world over, the unabridged Oxford-Duden is the most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date dictionary of German and English.

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