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Duden - German explanatory dictionary for UIQ 3.0
 Brockhaus Duden Neue Medien GmbH in Mannheim is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bibliographical Institute & F. A. Brockhaus AG publishing house. Duden’''''s reference books and dictionaries are specially meant for journalists, editors, students, interpreters, and translators, as well as for everyone else, who wants to write or speak neatly and stylistically correctly.
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Duden German explanatory dictionary is the most comprehensive German explanatory dictionary in one volume. It includes not only up-to-the-minute German vocabulary, but also covers its dialects and its variety in Austria and Switzerland. Detailed entries are devoted to the technical terms, professionalisms, jargon, and slang. As any other explanatory dictionary, Duden contains elaborated entries on the meaning and usage of the words and speech tokens in the sentence. The new edition of this basic work offers converted, updated, and considerably extended content of keywords from A to Z. Naturally, Duden German explanatory dictionary corresponds to the obligatory Official Spelling Rules dated August, 2006. The PDA-version offers numerous functions that actualize word search in the dictionary.
- About 150 000 keywords and phrases.
- More than 500 000 meaning explanations and usage examples, notes on spelling, grammar, word origin, and style.
- 10 000 words and phrases standing for new notions relevant for nowadays German reality, e.g. Erlebnisgesellschaft, Genfood, MP3-Player, Plasmabildschirm, seniorengerecht, Zweiklassenmedizin etc.
- Around 140 typical for the modern German language affixes, such as neo-, pseudo-, -bewusst, -wirksam and others are paid special attention.
- Advice on word usage helps to avoid mistakes in linguistically sensitive cases, such as with the words pervers and turken and inform that recently frequently used taubstumm should be substituted by gehorlos.
- Over 8 000 audio pronunciations for difficult words.
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Cross-lookup feature between articles
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