Product Description

This accessible and up-to-date dictionary is suitable for learners of Dutch at all levels.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43663 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-30
• Original language: Dutch, English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 928 pages

From the Back Cover
This accessible and up-to-date dictionary is suitable for learners of Dutch at all levels. The 50,000 entries include:
*pronunciation guidance
*contextual information
*Flemish words
*colloquial and idiomatic language
*political and economic institutions.
The dictionary also includes
*Advice on finding entries
*List of irregular verbs.

Customer Reviews

The best short dictionary around
I've bought or checked out quite a few Dutch dictionaries in the past year and this is easily the best. It's very up to date (just published back in January this year) with many modern terms. I noticed Van Dale quoted on the back so I wonder if Routledge get their source data from them. For those not familiar with Van Dale, they're the Dutch equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary. More about the book. It's a paperback, smallish but with a lot of words. English-Dutch and Dutch-English. It describes whether nouns are het or de words, essential to beginners. There's lots of nice example uses of words, just like you get in Van Dale books although cut down a bit. I must confess to using it much more than my bigger Van Dales dictionaries. Overall, I'd say Buy It.

great
this dictionary is excellent for the beginner and the advanced learner! it has regular, irregular, plurals, examples, context and lots and lots of entries. this is quite honestly a great dictionary for your average british learner, and i've found no end of use from it!

Very good all-round coverage
I am a professional translator. My knowledge of Dutch is very sketchy, but on the basis of German plus this dictionary I can get an accurate and clear understanding over 95% of the time. A lot of dictionaries that are much larger don't give these sorts of results. Obviously is doesn't do that much technical stuff, but as a companion to normal everyday educated language it is excellent.