The Oxford Duden German Minidictionary

Covering the essential vocabulary of everyday life, this new edition of The Oxford Paperback German Dictionary has been especially designed to meet the needs of tourists, students, travellers and business people.

The 'Oxford German Minidictionary' offers- Up-to-date coverage; all the essential vocabulary of everyday life; Over 50,000 words and phrases, and over 70,000 translations; New German spellings; while old forms are listed to show what has changed; Meanings and contexts clearly marked; all meanings and contexts are clearly signposted to point users to the most appropriate translation every time Unique new phrasefinder; shopping, travelling, meeting people, and dealing with an emergency; the key words and expressions from all these vocabulary areas and more are grouped together in this new phrasefinder to give users instant access to the words they want; Also includes - German pronunciation guide; tables of irregular German verbs; and a quick-reference numbers list.

This new edition of the Oxford German Minidictionary offers up-to-date coverage of all the essential day-to-day vocabulary with over 40,000 words and phrases, and 60,000 translations. The latest words in each language have been added, reflecting all aspects of life today - boy band, google, identity theft, heritage tourism, speed dating. New cultural notes give the essential background to life in the German-speaking world. Other key features include warning symbols to identifyslang and informal language, and special help with finding the correct translation of frequently used words, which are difficult to translate, because they appear in so many different contexts - words like can, do, have, and be. A new menu-reader section has been added so you know exactly what you're getting to eat, and the acclaimed phrasefinder gives you superfast access to all the words and expressions you need for everyday situations - shopping, travelling, asking for directions, or finding a place to stay. Finally, theconversion charts for distance, weights and measures, and clothing and shoe sizes make travelling abroad easier than ever before.All of these features are packed into a pocket-sized, durable format, and, with a brand-new text design and layout, this dictionary is more accessible and easy to use than ever before.Ideal for general users, business people, holiday makers, and travellers, the Oxford German Minidictionary is your perfect mini-guide to German.

This new edition provides an up-to-date and complete picture of contemporary German, including spelling changes ratified in 1996. Featured are more than 260,000 words, sample sentences, and maps. Thumb-indexed.

The result of a unique ten-year collaboration between two of the world's foremost dictionary publishers, Oxford University Press and Dudenverlag, The Oxford Duden German Dictionary offers the most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date coverage available of the general vocabulary of contemporary German and English. The two teams worked simultaneously, each living in their own country--in daily contact with other native speakers and in direct touch with changes in their own language--with regular joint sessions in Mannheim and Oxford to guarantee a balanced and completely consistent treatment. This sharing of expertise has resulted in a new kind of dictionary, one that is truly bilingual, not only in its language, but in all the details of its conception and realization--a dictionary that meets the needs of both English and German speakers in the 1990s, whether they wish to write or speak the foreign language or to translate from it. Here is a state-of-the-art reference work with all the features you would expect from an Oxford Dictionary. It is: Authoritative: Based on the language data-bases of two of the world's foremost dictionary makers and written by two expert teams of native speakers Comprehensive: Offers the broadest possible coverage of modern English and German, plus regional variations from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (for German), Britain, Australia, and the United States (for English) Up to date: Compiled by native speakers in intimate contact with changes in their language, this lexicon is right up to the minute, with entries for such recent coinages as "acid rain," "AIDS," "compact disc" and "cable television" Easy to Use: Entries are composed according to what will be most helpful to native speakers, there are many cross-references to help locate words that could appear in more than one place, and idiomatic expressions are clearly explained, even when they appear deep within a definition. Drawing on unparalleled resources, this outstanding dictionary will be the first choice of students, teachers, and translators, as well as anyone else wanting a clear and authoritative English-German dictionary.