Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4087 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German
| 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 Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4526 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic
| 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
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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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Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4849 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| 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. |
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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 Senior Member Germany Joined 4087 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German
| 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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