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lingua franca
A region usually adopts a lingua franca, or common language, when its inhabitants speak many different languages or dialects.
When people hear the term lingua franca, they often think of English. Although there are millions of people worldwide who don’t speak English, it has still become the lingua franca of many regions and areas of communication. One example is aviation — for airline pilots around the world, English is the lingua franca. The term means «Frankish tongue» in Italian, a reference to the original, 11th-century lingua franca, a mixture of Italian, French, Turkish, and other Mediterranean languages.
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1- I didn’t know I was Committing a crime when I tied my giraffe to the street lamp!
2- In Maryland,it’s a gainst the I am to keep chickens in your hotel room.
3- I was a rrested for riding a camel.
the policeman handcuffed me nad took me to the police station.
4- In turkey during the 16 th and 17th centuries, it was illegal to drink coffe. the punishment was death!
5- Are cats and dogs ever punished for breaking the law?
6- ‘you’re under arrest !
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Теперь у нее было свое мнение, и за ужином обсуждала с родителями Саши о том, какими сложными стали занятия для детей в школе. Но после всего она чувствовала, что классическое образование лучше курса коммерции(commercical) потому, что выпускаясь из школы, для тебя открыты все дороги для любой карьеры. Если ты выбрал, ты мог бы стать врачом, или если захотел, ты мог бы стать инженером.
Саша пошел в школу. 1) Его мать уехала навестить свою сестру в Харькове и никогда не вернулась. Поскольку его отца не было дома каждый день, он проводил осмотр(inspecting) скота и иногда отсутствовал более трех дней, Оленьке казалось, что Саша был совсем брошенным(abandoned), к нему относились, как будто он был лишним(superfluous) и, должно быть, умирает от голода. Итак она перевезла его в свою часть дома и выделила(fixed up) маленькую комнату для него там.
Каждое утро Оленька заходила в его комнату и находила его глубоко спящим с ладошкой подложенной(tucked) под щеку, и спал настолько тихо, что казалось, не дышал. 2) «Как досадно, что приходится будить его» думала она.
«Сашенька» говорила она печально(sorrowfully). «Вставай, дорогой. Пора в школу»
Он вставал, одевался, говорил свои молитвы, затем садился за завтрак. 3) Он выпивал 3 стакана чая, съедал 2 больших лепешки и половину масляного ролла. Он еще до конца не проснулся, поэтому немного заплетался(cross).
«Ты не знаешь свои басни, как следует, Сашенька» — говорила Оленька, глядя на него, как будто он отправлялся в долгое путешествие. «Какой ты проблемный. Ты должен больше стараться и учиться, дорогой, и слушайся своих учителей.»
«Оставь меня в покое, пожалуйста» говорил Саша.
I am looking for offline or online English-to-German dictionaries that provide example sentences for each entry. This would help me learn the usage of each word. For example: I searched for the word admit and it shows different German words, but without the usage of those words, I can not understand the proper meaning of the very English word in German.
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asked Dec 28, 2014 at 9:40
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I recommend you to use at least two web pages: one for translation and one for example sentences.
Translation:
- dict.cc
- pons.eu
- dict.leo.org
… you name it
Example sentences:
linguee.de
Furthermore it’s possible to search for words with the aid of google. Just type site:bla.de word.
For instance, use news sites such as focus.de or faz.net.
In addition to this you could use a monolingual dictionary for clarification:
- dwds.de
- duden.de
- wiktionary.org
answered Dec 28, 2014 at 11:29
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DWDS ist ein großes, aufwendiges Lexikon mit Definitionen, etymologischem Teil und einem Teil mit Beispielmaterial (sehr viel).
http://www.dwds.de/?qu=schlagen
Jeden der Teile kann man scrollen.
Auf der Startseite (dwds) findet man eine Kurzinformation zum DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache).
answered Dec 29, 2014 at 19:02
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Leo and dict.cc are good german/english dictionaries.
Also, you can get the book Mastering German Vocabulary as a free pdf if you google it. It is good for clarifying the use of many similar words. There is also another book by a similar name which cannot be found online for free (as far as I can see) but I’ve bought it and it is quite good.
answered Dec 28, 2014 at 10:31
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I’m afraid but there is no good online dictionary for this purpose. Especially no bilingual dictionaries.
The already suggested dictionaries dict.cc and dict.leo.org are very popular, but in my opinion they are only good for people who speak both languages good enough and only want to quickly look up a word.
A better dictionary is Pons, because they at least categorize the translations according to different meanings of a word. (Choose «Deutsch<->Englisch»)
Another dictionary that provides a few examples is Collins
You can find some examples in monolingual dictionaries on Duden, Wiktionary and Pons (choose «Deutsch als Fremdsprache»), but there you have to look up the German word.
answered Dec 28, 2014 at 10:57
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Not exactly what you are looking for, but linguee.de has real-world translations with context in both languages.
answered Dec 28, 2014 at 12:07
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Though no D-E dictionary of which I am aware provides illustrative sentences for every entry (this is quite unnecessary and would be extremely costly) the Muret-Sanders Encyclopedic dictionaries have abundant illustrative material. I am a professional German-English translator and use the Muret-Sanders quite frequently. If you are looking only for German, the Grimm Wörterbuch is enormous, and a good resource. A dictionary such as you describe would be gigantic, running to hundreds of thousands of pages.
Another good resource is Farrell’s Dictionary of German Synonyms (3rd ed, 1977, Cambridge U Press). It explains the usage of various German terms that translate the same English word.
answered Dec 29, 2014 at 1:16
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Disclaimer: I am the developer of the website.
A few days ago we added this functionality for the http://dreiartikel.de/dictionary
About 48K German definitions and about 51,5K English definitions. In both cases we are talking about words and short expressions.
The examples are coming from the European Commission’s DGT Translation Memory project.
The big advantage of this is that the translation quality is at professional level and the examples help you build a very «hoch Deutsch» or technical/specialized English vocabulary.
One disadvantage is that more or less colloquial words like «Lust» don’t find themselves in these documents that the Commission creates. Another one is that the examples are not always ideal because maybe they represent just titles.
answered Nov 19, 2015 at 20:29
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