Dictionary German PREMIUM 4+
For Professional Users
PONS Langenscheidt GmbH
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- £49.99
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Description
The most comprehensive German - English reference work from PONS, with 930,000 headwords, phrases and translations!
Do you read and write German texts, newspapers and magazines? Or do you frequently check on a word whilst reading or writing e-mails, letters, presentations, trade articles in German… focusing on the widest range of topics? The PONS Dictionary German - English PREMIUM has been designed for professionals and offers quick and reliable help!
About the contents:
• Current and comprehensive vocabulary containing more than 390,000 headwords and phrases and more than 540,000 translations
• With professional terminology from the worlds of business, computer science, law and natural sciences
• With context examples, information on language use, inclusion of all styles: from colloquial to literary and lots of information on grammar
• Detailed examination of British and American language usage and of the regional differences in language that prevail in Austria and Switzerland
• Contains both language directions (German-English and English-German)
• With IPA phonetics
What can the app do?
• This application provides 100% offline functionality.
• Optimised multitasking on the iPad: Slide Over lets you use a second app without ever leaving the first app. Use Split View to open and use two apps simultaneously, allowing you to, for example, look something up in the dictionary while reading your emails or writing messages.
• 3D touch support: tap a keyword lightly on the iPhone and see a preview of the dictionary entry with Peek. Tap on the icon for the PONS dictionary app to open the menu with the main dictionary functions (Quick Actions) and navigate directly to the chosen function within the dictionary.
• For the visually impaired and the blind! Activate the VoiceOver screen reader function to have the selected function keys and dictionary entry elements read out aloud.
• Direct look-up: Simply select a text in Safari, tap the share button and choose a dictionary. All of the words in the text that can be looked-up are then displayed.
• Look-ups from other applications: Copy individual words or whole sentences to the Clipboard, switch back to the dictionary app and individually look up all the words.
• Learn vocabulary: You can define words that you would like to learn as a vocabulary card. This allows vocabulary to be learned quickly and effectively.
• Listen to numerous keywords spoken by native speakers and practise your pronunciation: available for German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian.
• Use the full-text search to find examples.
About PONS:
PONS has been developing green materials for learning languages for life for over 40 years: from classic dictionaries and grammar aids to audio and software language courses right up to free online services.
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What’s New
Version 3.80.341
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Ratings and Reviews
Good app, but could be improved
Generally an excellent application which over the past few days of use has shown itself to be comprehensive. I have not yet found a word in either language that it doesn't have. The flashcard quiz is very basic but actually is still useful, allowing me to highlight words for memorising. My only real gripe is that there are verb conjugation tables for English but not an equivalent for the german. I am reasonably skilled after thirty odd years of conjugating English verbs, but that crazy german language still confuses me at times! Would be nice to have the tables for german verbs.
All right up to a point
Pons have produced a really good general dictionary for anyone wanting to read German. Apart from clear and complete definitions, it gives the pronunciation of all key words in audio-form. There are extensive and useful grammatical extras.
However, its vocabulary is limited. Many technical and scientific terms are left out: and these are often found in the Collins German Dictionary, which is available at half the price of the Pons Premium. Better to use the Pons Advanced dictionary which is just as good.
Slightly disappointing at first sight
This dictionary is probably OK, but doesn't seem to be as good as I was expecting for the price and in light of the description.
Here are a few random words I checked:
Tölpel - only the translation "fool" is given. Langenscheidt (Muret-Sanders eGroßwörterbuch - this may not be the same as the iPhone app) gives "dolt, oaf, clown, (clumsy) idiot", but most importantly also the second meaning of the word: gannet, booby. Pons Premium does include "gannet" in the English section, correctly translated as Tölpel, but to omit it from the German section is really not good enough for an app of this price which claims to be top of the range..
Schufa - the definition "German society for the securing of loans" does not really correctly describe the institution. Langenscheidt does better with: "organization collecting and providing information on creditworthiness, Am. etwa credit bureau"
Schufa-Auskunft is translated more usefully as "Confidential information on a potential borrower's credit standing"
Schufa-Selbstauskunft is not given.
The Swiss word "Allfällig" is inexplicably translated as "necessary", even though "eventuell" is given in brackets.
Vernehmlassung, another Swiss word, which is admittedly omitted by Langenscheidt, is given as "announcement". The far more common meaning of "consultation procedure" should have been given.
The perhaps slightly obscure US term "copacetic" is not in the English section. However, I expect a really good bilingual dictionary to contain words I don't already know in both languages.
These are only a few random examples, but the initial impression is closer to OK than excellent.
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Information
- Provider
- PONS Langenscheidt GmbH
- Size
- 300.5 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020 PONS
- Price
- £49.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.