>Dear List > >I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for good dictionaries or >other sources for translating German texts, which can often have older >forms of German words in them?
I do a LOT of translating from German, and I finally got so frustrated I invested in the CONDENSED MURET-SANDERS GERMAN DICTIONARY, German-English volume. As its title implies, this is a "reduced" version of the "real" MURET-SANDERS which, like the "real" OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, runs several volumes long. But for my purposes, this nearly 1,300 page, 140,000 word volume (with IPA!) does the trick 99.9% of the time. I think I paid about $70 for it when I ordered it, at a small discount, from Amazon.com. That, plus 501 GERMAN VERBS have made my life MUCH easier when I have to do German translations to English. (I never translate in the other direction, which is why I didn't bother with the English-German volume.)
I would suggest you get that volume, then also scour the used and antiquarian book stores and sales for a reasonably-priced old German-English dictionary, one that was published before the First World War - ideally, it would be published in the mid-19th century, but I know these can be much hard to find.
Karen Mercedes
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