A Frequency Dictionary of German: Core Vocabulary for Learners (Routledge Frequency Dictionaries) (English and German Edition)

This completely updated edition of A Frequency Dictionary of German contains the 5,000 most commonly used words of German today, occurring in a 20-million-word corpus (compared to a 4.2-million-word corpus in the first edition). The basis of the frequency list is a significantly extended version of the Herder/BYU Corpus of Contemporary German . The Dictionary contains spoken and written German, and represents different genres, text types, registers, styles, and also regional varieties. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while former CD content is now available to access at (http://www.routledge.com/9781138659780) www.routledge.com/9781138659780 as support material to provide the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguists. The corpus is designed to represent the current German language as it is used in the real world. Useful as a reference for students and course designers alike, A Frequency Dictionary of German is an important new resource. This completely updated edition of A Frequency Dictionary of German contains the 5,000 most commonly used words of German today, occurring in a 20-million-word corpus (compared to a 4.2-million-word corpus in the first edition). The basis of the frequency list is a significantly extended version of the Herder/BYU Corpus of Contemporary German. The Dictionary contains spoken and written German, and represents different genres, text types, registers, styles, and also regional varieties. The corpus is designed to represent the current German language as it is used in the real world. Useful as a reference for students and course designers alike, A Frequency Dictionary of German is an important new resource. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Thematic vocabulary lists 7 Series preface 8 Acknowledgments 10 Abbreviations 11 Introduction to the second edition 12 Frequency index 20 Alphabetical index 256 Part of speech index 310 100 most frequent verbs 310 100 most frequent nouns 310 100 most frequent adjectives 311 Prepositions 312 Conjunctions 312 Abbreviations 313 Auxiliary and modal verbs 313 High frequency phrases 313 "This completely updated edition of A Frequency Dictionary of German contains the 5,000 most commonly used words of German today, occurring in a 20 million word corpus (compared to a 4.2 million corpus in the first edition). The basis of the frequency list is a significantly extended version of the Herder/BYU Corpus of Contemporary German. The Dictionary contains spoken and written German, and represents different genres, text types, registers, styles, and also regional varieties. The corpus is designed to represent the current German language as it is used in real world. Useful as a reference for students and course designers alike, A Frequency Dictionary of German is an important new resource."-- Provided by publisher Revised Edition Of: A Frequency Dictionary Of German / Randall L. Jones (2005012949).