The PONS Dictionary English BASIC with 120,000 headwords, phrases and translations is a reliable aid for everyday and leisure use!
Do you need to check on English or German words – in your day-to-day business, leisure time, or when on holiday? Do you long for quick and clear answers?
The PONS Dictionary German-English/English-German BASIC offers fast and direct help, with the vocabulary you really need for everyday and leisure use.
Who can really benefit from this app?
Everyone who wants to quickly check a word in everyday and leisure use!
About the contents:
- Current vocabulary containing more than 50,000 headwords and phrases and 70,000 translations
- With IPA phonetics
- Helpful information on grammar and different spellings
- Bi-directional: German => English and English => German
What can the app do?
- Instant look-up directly on the device
- Look up unfamiliar words directly from the home screen. Search your App for translations via the Quick Search Box used for search engine selection. Results are then displayed on the home screen.
- Pronunciation: Listen to numerous headwords spoken by native speakers.
- Vocabulary lists: Add words that you want to learn to your ‘Vocabulary lists’. Use the vocabulary list quiz as a quick and effective way to learn the words! The vocabulary list quiz is an additional function that can be purchased at extra cost.
- Search for English headwords in any form you like (declined or conjugated).
- Don’t worry if you’re not sure how to spell a word – the similar words or wild card search function will find what you are looking for.
- Search by voice. Speak your queries instead of typing words in a dictionary (available for phones with Google voice recognition service).
- Vocabulary lists: Add words that you want to learn to your ‘Vocabulary lists’. Use the vocabulary list quiz as a quick and effective way to learn the words!
- Jump from one language direction to the other with just one click: from ‘English => German’ to ‘German => English’ and vice versa. Access linked entries, equally with just one click.
- Once the App has been opened, you can copy in any word from another application (e. g. your browser) and look it up.
- Word of the day widget displays a random entry from the dictionary daily. Learn up to 365 new words a year without even trying!
- Font size and background colour may be adjusted individually.
- Installation on memory cards (available for OS 2.2 and higher).
- This application provides 100% offline functionality. You do not incur any roaming charges.
About PONS:
Over 30 years PONS develops green self-study materials and dictionaries for language learners. Over 500 dictionaries and self-study materials for different languages as Chinese or Hungarian help beginners or advanced learners to learn easy and fast. Discover more at www.pons.bg, www.pons.de and www.pons.eu.
PONS GmbH is a member of Klett Group. With over 60 companies at 42 places in 18 countries Klett Group is the biggest educational company in Germany.
Registering
The number of translations in demo-version is limited. The more often you use the dictionary the more notifications about demo version you get. To save you time we’ve provided a new way of purchasing and registering PONS dictionary for Android. Now you do not need to search for the product on the web, you can purchase it directly from your device. To do this, open PONS dictionary and go to Menu->Registration->Buy.