Dictionary German - English ADVANCED by PONS 4+
PONS GmbH
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- $22.99
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Description
A comprehensive dictionary with 775,000 keywords, 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?
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.
• NEW! Optimised multitasking on the iPad (iOS 10): 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.
• NEW! 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.
• NEW – 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: 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 30 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 3.80.66
• Optimised user-friendliness.
• Optimised multitasking on the iPad thanks to Slide Over and Split View (iOS 10).
• 3D touch support.
• With VoiceOver – for the visually impaired and the blind.
We look forward to your feedback: Send your questions and suggestions to kundenservice@pons.de.
Ratings and Reviews
Outdated app
Don’t buy it. The PONs translator does a better job. The format of this one is not easy to read and feels like a clunky 10 year old app. Wasted $22.
Developer Response
Dear WolfTsenW, every review is valueable for us. We want to make our app better and better every day, so we are happy to hear what you did not like (kundenservice@pons.de). Thank you.
If you want a better dictionary, you'll have to buy a Book!
Sometimes you get what you pay for, sometimes you get less than you pay for. You get a lot more than you paid for with the PONS dictionary. It's quite a bargain and I would have quite cheerfully have paid a lot more to get this excellent little dictionary. The publisher has an enviable well-deserved reputation as a purveyor of electronic German-English dictionaries. The less expensive alternatives may well suffice for someone who is planning an occasional trip to a German speaking country and anxious to avoid using the wrong restroom, but the PONS is much more comprehensive and will probably remain the best choice until someone squeezes an unabridged Collins or Langenscheidt into portable form. My only quibble, and it's a minor annoyance, is that PONS uses British English and as an American I occasionally have no idea what a term means. The print Collins unabridged manages to include both British and American English and I'd hope that some time in the future PONS will follow that admirable practice.
Having used PONS on other platforms, I'm confident that the various undocumented features (bugs) will disappear as Paragon continues to update the product. They've been very conscientious about that in the past.
Well worth the price
Thanks for fixing the pronunciation-through-the-speaker bug! It's so great to have such a comprehensive dictionary able to fit in the pocket and to be accessible instantly and offline. Definitions show context and usage. I use it all the time and I'm very happy with it. The "favorites" list is helpful to store words for later review. A few things could be improved:
1. Splash screen: Eliminate it. It wastes time.
2. Inflexion Table: There is now a list of irregular verbs (lacking subjunctive forms), but I wish each verb had its own inflexion table, like one would see in Canoo. Declension tables for adjectives would be nice, too.
3. Optional Download of Pronunciations: Allow user to delete English (or Deutsch) pronunciations to save memory. One doesn't need both sets.
4. More Deutsch Pronunciations: Only the base words have pronunciations. There is a pronunciation for "Rock" but not the more-difficult plural "Röcke". There is one for "sein", but not "wäre", one for "werden" but not "würden".
Information
- Seller
- PONS GmbH
- Size
- 308.1 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- Rated 4+
- Copyright
- © 2017 PONS GmbH
- Price
- $22.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
