Title: A practical dictionary of German usage /
Authors: Beaton, K. B.
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: German language Usage Dictionaries.; German language Idioms Dictionaries; German language Dictionaries English.; English language Dictionaries German
Abstract: One of the most difficult tasks confronting the English speaker learning German is that of finding exactly the right German word to translate an English word in a particular context. Many common English words have several, sometimes a bewildering number of German equivalents. Thus it is all too easy to find yourself saying the equivalent of Have you extinguished the rubbish? instead of Have you put out the rubbish? Bilingual dictionaries list equivalents, but give little or no information about their use. The articles in this practical dictionary are much longer than those to be found in a bilingual dictionary, and the number of words treated is fewer, with a concentration on those which cause particular difficulties for speakers of English.