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| adoggie Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6532 days ago 160 posts - 159 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 1 of 4 18 January 2010 at 5:31am | IP Logged | ||
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What is the precise distinction between Auflage and Ausgabe? I was reading "Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten" and the page with the copyright information used both of these words. When I looked them up on the online dictionary, both said "edition." But really, there must be a difference between the two.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6469 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 2 of 4 18 January 2010 at 11:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Auflage is for the print run. You will most often see it used to describe how many copies
are printed of any one magazine or book, e. g. "in kleiner Auflage" meaning that few items are produced as the company doesn't expect to sell many. In your case, I believe it is used to indicate the number of the print run, if they started re-printing the book without making any changes. Ausgabe is typically seen in the context of magazines, e. g. "die Ausgabe vom 3. Dezember". It's "edition" in the sense of a publishing. The content of each Ausgabe is related but not the same. For magazines there are obviously great differences between each Ausgabe. For books, there may just be minor changes, error fixes, adding a foreword, or so on. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5765 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 4 18 January 2010 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | ||
I thought those are often counted as different 'Auflagen' (especially when fixing typesetting errors) whereas hard cover and soft sover editions of a book are counted as different 'Ausgaben'. Same goes for luxury editions, editions adapted for children, large-print editions ... Edited by Bao on 18 January 2010 at 3:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5846 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 4 18 January 2010 at 3:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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"Auflage" is something you can quantify: "die erste, zweite, dritte, vierte... Auflage eines Buches". "Das Buch X hat eine sehr hohe Auflage erreicht."
"Ausgabe" refers to a specific content of a magazine or a book. For example you can find a "Sonderausgabe", "spezielle Ausgabe", "illustrierte Ausgabe". You assumption is right: "Auflage" and "Ausgabe" are not synonyms. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 18 January 2010 at 3:11pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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