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| Lojlag Newbie Spain Joined 5527 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English | Message 1 of 8 06 October 2009 at 1:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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I hope anyone has post anything about this yet. I was wondering if someone knows if it exists a dictionary which word is in one language for example Spanish and the definition is in other, for example English.
eg. espada: metal object with a blade ... Thanks in advanced. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6378 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 8 06 October 2009 at 2:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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Those type of dictionaries are very common. You can find them in any bookstore and on the web.
Am I misunderstanding your question? Edited by newyorkeric on 06 October 2009 at 2:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5865 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 3 of 8 06 October 2009 at 4:06am | IP Logged | |||||
I think you are. If I understand correctly, the question was about a dictionary that gave the word in one language and the "definition" in the second language, not the equivalent word in the second language. Espanda is a sword, but sword wasn't given in the example, just the definition. I don't know of any such dictionary that omits the actual translated word and just puts the definition. Some may put both. Why would anyone want such a dictionary? To try to guess the translation? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6378 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 8 06 October 2009 at 4:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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Yup, that explains it, thanks. My only excuse is a lack of caffeine...
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6438 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 5 of 8 06 October 2009 at 10:26am | IP Logged | |||||
I doubt it. Who wants to end up thinking that espada means spade/shovel, or knife? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| roncy Pentaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5916 days ago 105 posts - 112 votes Speaks: French*, English, German, Spanish, Latin | Message 6 of 8 06 October 2009 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
I would certainly have thought of "spade". Logic, English words starting with st or sp are often just slightly changed but prefixed with an e: spade -> espada. I think if there were such a dictionary it would be called "Misleading Dictionary for Dummies" or some other such name. Better fun even than sudoku or cross-word puzzles, because it could be played as a party game, see who comes up with the wackiest translations fitting misleading definitions. Other than that it would be pretty useless, except maybe as weight for pressing down on freshly glued collages. Though I can think of a lot of other, cheaper ways of doing that. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lojlag Newbie Spain Joined 5527 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English | Message 7 of 8 11 October 2009 at 7:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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During my experience as a learner i've got into many situations where I was looking for the meaning of a word and the only thing I got was an equivalent word in anoteher language, and the usual unilingual-dictionary had a not simple enough definition leading in many cases to misconceptions. A dcitionary with the equivalent words and a definition would solve any doubts of the correct word definiton and thats what i'm looking for.
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| XGargoyle Bilingual Triglot Groupie Spain Joined 5955 days ago 42 posts - 93 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, EnglishB2 Studies: GermanA2, Japanese, Russian | Message 8 of 8 14 October 2009 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Why don't you use a Thesaurus? It will provide you a list of synonyms for your target language and it's assumed that one of these words will be an already-known one, meaning you don't need an extra definition in your language. Just my two cents...
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