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Gemuse
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 Message 9 of 12
12 June 2014 at 8:14pm | IP Logged 
Thanks. I guess the feel for when to use the present tense for future will come with exposure.

I do have a dictionary. My 1300 page dictionary says "plan" for both plannen and vorhaben.
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daegga
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 Message 10 of 12
12 June 2014 at 8:29pm | IP Logged 
Gemuse wrote:

I do have a dictionary. My 1300 page dictionary says "plan" for both plannen and
vorhaben.


The problem is that both can mean "plan", but different meanings of "plan". Translations
usually don't match 1:1, ie. they might only be a translation of 1 meaning of a word.
Monolingual dictionaries might help to clarify which meaning is intended.
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 Message 11 of 12
12 June 2014 at 9:20pm | IP Logged 
Gemuse wrote:
I do have a dictionary. My 1300 page dictionary says "plan" for both planen and vorhaben.

In that case, I recommend using online dictionaries, which usually have more entries than paper dictionaries. A good one for German-English is dict.cc. I didn't mean to be rude, by the way.
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Gemuse
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 Message 12 of 12
13 June 2014 at 10:38am | IP Logged 
Looking at the entry for vorhaben on dict.cc:
http://www.dict.cc/?s=vorhaben
There are numbers to the right. Do these indicate frequency of usage?

Regarding paper dicts, one of the reason why they are attractive is *because* they contain fewer entries, and thus the most important ones are prioritized.

I looked at another 2000 page PONS dictionary, it too has "to plan" as the first entry for vorhaben.

*sigh*

PS: I just wanted to convey that I am doing some sort of due diligence in general when I ask here ;)

Edited by Gemuse on 13 June 2014 at 10:46am



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