Scholze-Stubenrecht Werner, Sykes John Bradbury. The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary 3/3

2nd ed. — Oxford-Duden, 1999. — 1728 p. — ISBN: 0-19-860226-X, ISBN: 0-19-860248-0.The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary is produced jointly by two of the world’s leading dictionary publishers, Oxford University Press and the Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim. For this new edition the dictionary has been enlarged and updated to take account of new vocabulary and recent developments in English and German. Thousands of additional words and phrases, selected using the unparalleled databases maintained and continually expanded by the publishers for their celebrated native speaker dictionaries such as the Concise Oxford Dictionary and Das Große Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache, reflect scientific and technological innovations as well as changes in politics, culture, and society. Reforms to the spelling of German ratified by the governments of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in 1996 have been fully incorporated and are clearly signposted. This new edition includes as a special feature detailed usage boxes to help with important areas of grammar and vocabulary. These boxes highlight differences between German and English which may create difficulty for the learner and translator, explaining them in detail and providing clear illustrative examples. Other boxes give the user key facts about sets of words that behave alike, for example, names of countries, languages, numbers, and days of the week. They also provide ways of discussing topics such as age, dates, time, and measurements and offer essential practical information on asking the way, formulating greetings, apologizing, and letter-writing. Crossreferences to the boxes are given at all the relevant entries, making them easily accessible points of reference for students and valuable aids to teaching.