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PREMIUM Wörterbuch Englisch app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 512 ratings )
Reference Education
Developer: PONS GmbH
49.99 USD
Current version: 3.80.341, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 03 May 2011
App size: 286.56 Mb

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


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Pros and cons of PREMIUM Wörterbuch Englisch app for iPhone and iPad

PREMIUM Wörterbuch Englisch app good for

Completamente demais esse app, você copia no safari muda a screen, já aparece a palavra traduzida, eu tenho alguns dicionários interativos, mas esse com certeza foi o melhor que ja usei com o ipad, realmente cumpre com o que promete.. Amazing quality, works together with the safari browser, have really the equal quality of paperbook dictionary pons. This app is helping me to much to Deutsch learn and search relative words....
The only thing I am missing is a full text search for words in phrases. Otherwise, the best English-German dictionary in the app-store.

Some bad moments

Läuft nicht unter IOS8 - E40 rausgeschmissen As a language consultant, I need to access the App during my working day.
The PONS dictionary itself is a well known reference but Paragons app quality is pretty low. 1) There is no inflected forms for the words 2) Quality control is bad - clicking on audio play button on POSITION word in English-German translation crashed the app; clicking on audio of POSITIVE says "GOOD". This is a typical problem with Appstore apps carying logos of big renown brands like PONS - you are expecting their quality while in fact there is no one.
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).
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, Id guess this is probably it.
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? Cant 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.
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

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