Dictionary German <-> English ADVANCED by PONS
Detailed App Info:
Application Description
A comprehensive dictionary with 775,000 headwords, phrases and translations.
Do you talk to German or English friends in your spare time? Do you read or write in German or English in a wide range of subjects – privately or even professionally? Do you deal with German or English-speaking partners in your everyday working life?
Then the PONS Dictionary German - English ADVANCED is the perfect tool for you!
Who can benefit in particular from this app?
Everyone who speaks German or English in their everyday life, their spare time or as part of their job or who works on German or English texts.
About the contents:
• Bi-directional: German => English and English => German
• Current and comprehensive vocabulary containing around 315,000 headwords and phrases and more than 460,000 translations
• With vocabulary ranging from everyday language to modern specialist terminology
• With context examples, information on language use and lots of other important information on grammar
• With American, Australian as well as Austrian and Swiss German vocabulary
• With info boxes for culture, country and people
• With IPA phonetics
What can the app do?
• New! iPhone 5 support
• Pronunciation: Listen to numerous headwords spoken by native speakers.
• Search for English headwords in any form you like (declined or conjugated).
• Don’t worry if you’re not sure how to spell a word – the similar words or wild card search function will find what you are looking for. The anagram search is an additional function that enables you to search for words with the same letters but in a different order.
• Easy navigation: The iPad displays two panels side by side (split screen) – the keyword list is shown on the left and the entry for the chosen keyword on the right. Optimized browsing functions allow you to scroll through the list of dictionary entries quickly.
• Vocabulary lists: Add words that you want to learn to your ‘Vocabulary lists’. Use the vocabulary list quiz as a quick and effective way to learn the words!
• Jump from one language direction to the other with just one click: from ‘English => German’ to ‘German => English’ and vice versa. Access linked entries, equally with just one click.
• Context menu: The translation of any word in the dictionary can be displayed directly via the context menu, the pronunciation can be listened to and a summary of word forms can be accessed via the morphology function.
• Individual settings. Use the range of options like defining the text size.
• Unknown words can be copied to the clipboard from other applications. When changing from background mode to active mode (multitasking) they are then entered in the search window and the corresponding entry – where available – is displayed directly.
• Use the history function to call up your last 100 word searches again – at a click.
• This application provides 100% offline functionality. You do not incur any roaming charges.
A tip for app developers:
PONS GmbH is a member of the Open Dictionary API Alliance. Members of this alliance can access top-quality dictionaries.
Become a member on http://dictionary-api.org and benefit from furnishing your apps with an interface that allows the users of your apps to access the contents of the most well-known publishers’ dictionary apps at the same time.
About PONS:
PONS has been developing green materials for learning languages and dictionaries for life for more than 30 years: for school, business, travel and hobby use. More than 500 dictionaries and courses in languages as diverse as Chinese and Hungarian help you to learn and check words – regardless of any prior knowledge you may or may not have.
Do you talk to German or English friends in your spare time? Do you read or write in German or English in a wide range of subjects – privately or even professionally? Do you deal with German or English-speaking partners in your everyday working life?
Then the PONS Dictionary German - English ADVANCED is the perfect tool for you!
Who can benefit in particular from this app?
Everyone who speaks German or English in their everyday life, their spare time or as part of their job or who works on German or English texts.
About the contents:
• Bi-directional: German => English and English => German
• Current and comprehensive vocabulary containing around 315,000 headwords and phrases and more than 460,000 translations
• With vocabulary ranging from everyday language to modern specialist terminology
• With context examples, information on language use and lots of other important information on grammar
• With American, Australian as well as Austrian and Swiss German vocabulary
• With info boxes for culture, country and people
• With IPA phonetics
What can the app do?
• New! iPhone 5 support
• Pronunciation: Listen to numerous headwords spoken by native speakers.
• Search for English headwords in any form you like (declined or conjugated).
• Don’t worry if you’re not sure how to spell a word – the similar words or wild card search function will find what you are looking for. The anagram search is an additional function that enables you to search for words with the same letters but in a different order.
• Easy navigation: The iPad displays two panels side by side (split screen) – the keyword list is shown on the left and the entry for the chosen keyword on the right. Optimized browsing functions allow you to scroll through the list of dictionary entries quickly.
• Vocabulary lists: Add words that you want to learn to your ‘Vocabulary lists’. Use the vocabulary list quiz as a quick and effective way to learn the words!
• Jump from one language direction to the other with just one click: from ‘English => German’ to ‘German => English’ and vice versa. Access linked entries, equally with just one click.
• Context menu: The translation of any word in the dictionary can be displayed directly via the context menu, the pronunciation can be listened to and a summary of word forms can be accessed via the morphology function.
• Individual settings. Use the range of options like defining the text size.
• Unknown words can be copied to the clipboard from other applications. When changing from background mode to active mode (multitasking) they are then entered in the search window and the corresponding entry – where available – is displayed directly.
• Use the history function to call up your last 100 word searches again – at a click.
• This application provides 100% offline functionality. You do not incur any roaming charges.
A tip for app developers:
PONS GmbH is a member of the Open Dictionary API Alliance. Members of this alliance can access top-quality dictionaries.
Become a member on http://dictionary-api.org and benefit from furnishing your apps with an interface that allows the users of your apps to access the contents of the most well-known publishers’ dictionary apps at the same time.
About PONS:
PONS has been developing green materials for learning languages and dictionaries for life for more than 30 years: for school, business, travel and hobby use. More than 500 dictionaries and courses in languages as diverse as Chinese and Hungarian help you to learn and check words – regardless of any prior knowledge you may or may not have.
Requirements
Your mobile device must have at least 193.72 MB of space to download and install Dictionary German <-> English ADVANCED by PONS app. Dictionary German <-> English ADVANCED by PONS was updated to a new version. Purchase this version for $21.99
If you have any problems with installation or in-app purchase, found bugs, questions, comments about this application, you can visit the official website of Paragon Technologie GmbH at http://www.pons.de.
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