Dictionary German PREMIUM

Dictionary German PREMIUM

By PONS Langenscheidt GmbH

  • Category: Reference
  • Release Date: 2011-05-03
  • Current Version: 3.80.341
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 286.56 MB
  • Developer: PONS Langenscheidt GmbH
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 9.0
Score: 1.75
1.75
From 4 Ratings

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. www.pons.com © AnglianArt - Fotolia.com

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  • Used to be ok, now it’s difficult to use

    1
    By eric.johnson
    The last major update caused all sorts of problems. Now it takes forever to launch. Such a pain when I need to find a word quickly. Not only that, the new way that the app suggests words that you are searching for is far inferior compared to how it used to be. It tries to be “smart” and guess the word you are looking for. In the process, it hides words that actually start with the letters you are typing. An actual example to illustrate: type “selb” (the first four letters in the word “selbst”). Do you see “selbst” anywhere in the list of words you might be searching for? No. Just “Gelb” and “gelb”, because it’s guessing you meant those. If I want to get to the definition for the word “selbst”, I have to keep typing letters until it finally gets the hint. The app should *always* display words that begin with the letters I am typing, not just try to guess what I am trying to type. What’s more, this is a dictionary - I *want* to see the words that come right before and after the word “selbst” when I’m searching for that word, because sometimes it helps me learn other words that are related to it. Search used to work correctly in an earlier version. Now it is horribly broken. What’s worse, I tried to contact the developer and explained these exact problems with a very detailed write up and screenshots to illustrate. I was just brushed off. That was several months ago. Still nothing has changed. Be careful where you spend your money, this is probably not the dictionary for you, unless they decide to get their act together and address the user interface problems and dreadfully slow startup times.

  • Definitely not worth it

    1
    By Greenirani
    Slow starting app, very basic words and almost 90% of them with no pronunciation, no verb conjugations, and many definitions are just one or two words! It is by no means a dictionary. Really not. There are many better and cheaper apps out there with more functionality. I wish I could have a refund.. To developer: I thought PONS is a good and respected company. Now I don't feel the same. You're not only loosing a customer, you're destroying your reputation.

  • Underpowered for the price

    2
    By Levo Dextro
    The raw dictionary capabilities of PONS are great. I use it a lot and it has most of the words I need. I've been using some version of it for 6 years. However, it has a long history of underwhelming development. First, it doesn't provide pronunciation for all words, which is ridiculous at the price. Second, it is always behind in development. They focus on tricks and trash rather than what is useful. Example: You can use a pen to enter words, but it's very flaky and ultimately a big waste of time. So they have wasted their time on very poor handwriting support. However, they have no support for iOS 9 -- you can't split the screen with another app, there are no keyboard shortcuts for the iPad Pro, etc. All of that would have been really helpful. This has been the history for at lest 6 years across several platforms. The bottom line is that it is an excellent dictionary, stuck inside a very poor dictionary engine (which is shared by many dictionary apps). And someone made a bad decision about eliminating so many of the pronunciations.

  • Premium Wörterbuch

    4
    By prreid
    The things I like include the synonyms, usage examples and linguistic context. HOWEVER there free apps which offer a larger vocabulary. In summary: very useful but clearly over-priced

  • I hâte ~ and nô German verb conjugations

    1
    By Jason.0
    This dictionary is a bit lacking although I like the pronunciations and the pop up word lookup feature. Here are my complaints: 1- slow to start. PONS green screen for several seconds on a 64 bit iPad mini 2. Regrettable. 2- the formatting of the examples is really hard to read and the constant use of ~ to replace the word is unforgivable. It made sense in a paper dictionary, but on a iPad? Can't the app replace the ~ with the word for me so that I could maybe copy and paste the phrase and read it with ease? 3- they include wonderful conjugation tables and word form tables for English, but I am trying to learn German and they have zero tables for the German verb forms. A tragedy. The designers here need to have a look at Antidote. That is the very best dictionary and grammar guide I have found, but it is for French only. It is beautifully formatted and organizes phrase examples by usage found on the Internet and popular literature. It gives tabs to view synonyms, antonyms, history, conjugation, etc.

  • Expensive but worth it

    5
    By YesNoCancel
    This has everything you could want. The content is from the best source possible for a German dictionary- PONS GmbH. The definitions are clear and well-formatted. There are a huge number of examples. There is built-in audio for many words. Everything is hyperlinked. There are cheaper dictionaries in the PONS series if this one is too expensive (Advanced/Basic/etc). But if you want the best, I'd guess this is probably it.

  • Very good but still space to improve details

    4
    By GBK888
    The best from what I saw of non- online dictionaries. But needs to be applied carefully as some mistakes need to be fixed, e.g. "Handwerker" (craftsman) or "bzw." (respectively, or rather).

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