Dictionary German English PONS

A comprehensive dictionary with 775,000 keywords, phrases and translations.

Do you talk to German friends in your spare time? Do you read or write in German in a wide range of subjects – privately or even professionally? Do you deal with German-speaking partners in your everyday working life?

About the contents:

• Both language directions (German-English and English-German)

• Current and comprehensive vocabulary containing around 315,000 keywords and phrases and more than 460,000 translations

• With context examples, information on language use and lots of information on grammar

• With American, Australian as well as Austrian and Swiss German vocabulary

• With info boxes for country and people, grammar. Typical mistakes and help with the wording of sentences

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.

• Have fun learning basic vocabulary: five learning games are available – Memory, Word Combination, Word Snake, Alphabet Soup and Professional test – so that you can have fun while mastering the basic vocabulary.

• Listen to numerous keywords spoken by native speakers and practise your pronunciation.

• 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

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