kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5799 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German
| Message 1 of 4 15 May 2010 at 6:51pm | IP Logged |
I've been studying Swedish for awhile and I think it's time I get a nice dictionary instead of just using online ones, but I don't really even know where to start looking other than here. So, any suggestions for a particular Swedish-English dictionary?
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6705 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 4 16 May 2010 at 12:12am | IP Logged |
Norstedts has pretty decent dictionaries - they come in Engelska/Svenska, Svenska/Engelska and even an Engelska/Svenska - Svenska/Engelska. The last one is probably the best one.
Eng/Sv doesn't mentions genders, but Sv/Eng does, and as you probably want to be able to look up words you don't know yet - you're better off with a dictionary in both "directions".
Example (just from memory):
Eng/Sv
table - bord
Sv/Eng
bord(et) - table (as you can see "bordET" indicates that it's neuter, (ett bord, bordet, detta bord, det där bordet et.c.)
So, you'll have to look up the word twice, first from English, then from Swedish.
Either this, or you have to find a dictionary aimed at people with Swedish as a second language (which I don't know about). After all, most Eng/Sv dictionaries are aimed for Swedes (who already know the genders).
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5352 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 3 of 4 16 May 2010 at 3:59am | IP Logged |
I've got Norstedts Engelska Fickordbok on my bookshelf too. Although it's mainly for Swedish learners of English, it's a handsome little stripy blue pocket dictionary with 32,000 words and phrases, and does the job whilst not putting any real dent in your wallet either.
Edited by Teango on 16 May 2010 at 3:59am
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kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5799 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German
| Message 4 of 4 20 May 2010 at 2:39am | IP Logged |
Thanks you two, it looks like that's the one I'll be taking to Uppsala with me this summer!
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