Oxford-Duden German Dictionary

by Michael Clark; Olaf Thyen

• ISBN13: 9780198602262
• ISBN10: 019860226X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporat

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Key to German-English entries	8	(3)
Key to English-German entries	11	(3)
Guide to the use of the Dictionary	14	(18)
Order of entries	14	(1)
Division of entries	15	(1)
The headword	16	(1)
Pronunciation	17	(1)
Grammatical information	18	(3)
Labels	21	(2)
Indicators	23	(1)
Translations and collocators	24	(4)
Phrases	28	(2)
Cross references	30	(2)
Phonetic symbols used in transcriptions of German words	32	(1)
Phonetic symbols used in transcriptions of English words	33	(1)
German abbreviations used in the Dictionary	34	(2)
English abbreviations used in the Dictionary	36	(2)
How do they work? Political systems and institutions	38	(6)
Festtags-, Feiertags- und Brauchtumskalender	44	(2)
Calendar of traditions, festivals, and holidays	46	(3)
German-English Dictionary	49	(852)
German correspondence	867	(12)
Englische Musterbriefe	879	(12)
Useful phrases	891	(10)
English-German Dictionary	901	(806)
The revision of German spellings	1707	(2)
Outline of German grammatical forms	1709	(6)
Key points of German orthography and punctuation	1715	(2)
Kleine Formenlehre des Englischen	1717	(4)
Die Zeichensetzung im Englischen	1721	(2)
German irregular verbs	1723	(4)
Englische unregelmaßige Verben	1727