Danish Dictionary: Danish-English, English-Danish (Routledge Bilingual Dictionaries)

I was pleased to receive this book as quickly as I did, and the condition was as I had been told; excellent! The book helps me in writing to Danish family in Denmark, as I find it hard to remember the spellings and usage of Danish words. The book further provides examples of usage in a variety of different situations. I purchased the book used through Amazon, and have always been well pleased with the books I purchased in that manner.

It's a dictionary. It has Danish words

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Excellent. All noun references show proper definite/indefinite articles.

This is an amazingly complete dictionary for being so small. It has lots of colloquial phrases as well as accurate translation. Tusind tak.

I'm in total agreement with the other two reviews. This dictionary has the vocabulary in place--but that's where a dictiorary's job should start. It's where the Routledge dictionary ends. Really necessary in a translation dictionary are the genders, plural forms, verb forms, good pronunciation keys, and idiomatic usages; even better are cross-referencing of cognates and "false friends," entries to help you understand nuances and etymology. This dictionary is sorely lacking in all these categories--most aggravating is the lack of plural forms, verb forms, and irregular forms in general. You can use this dictioary to read Danish, but you sure can't use it to help you write the language (not unless you want to write the Danish equivalent of "Me go store and buy two bits bread"). Routledge (I imagine) wouldn't have done this with an Italian or French dictionary: Danish is a small language and, with a cornered market, they did a cheap, slapdash job. Fortunately, there is a very good Danish-English Dictionary available. Unfortunately, it is published (as far as I can tell) only in Denmark. They're really good.

Right now this is the most complete Danish dictionary Amazon stocks. I agree with the other reviewers about its shortcomings. While it does give the gender of Danish nouns, it doesn't give the plurals. Some common idioms are listed, but the selection seems to have been made with Danish speakers in mind. I recommend using this dictionary in conjunction with a purely Danish "retskrivnings" dictionary like Politiken's Danskordbog. If you find yourself in Denmark, buy the two-volume red Gyldendals dictionary ($80 each, special-ordered at Amazon) edited by Jens Axelsen. Gyldendals, unfortunately, doesn't give pronunciations either. If you want something to hold in your hand while you stroll through museums, buy the Berlitz.

Thinking about this dictionary again after several years, the most basic objection to it suddenly occurs to me: you can't lay it open on a desk! It is a huge book (with huge type, and yawning white spaces) so it's useless as a portable dictionary. But say you want to sit down and do translation with it: the cheap and stiff binding forces you have to hold the book open with both hands...and then let it flop closed while you turn back to the book you were reading or the paper you were writing...then turn away from that and prize open the dictionary again... *OR* you can cut this Gordian knot by breaking the spine in as many places as possible and, in the time between this and when all the pages fall out, special order the Gyldendal or Hippocrene dictionaries. That's the most gratifying option.

This was a bit of a disappointment. There were words which I would not regard as particularly rare that are missing. It might be OK for someone just starting to learn the language, but for me, it wasn't good enough.

For its size and weight this English-Danish dictionary is a big disappointment. The coverage of vocabulary is limited and mediocre for such a clumsy, heavy book. It's a pocket dictionary in disguise. I found very few modern words and phrases in it. The most annoying feature, (that it shares with other "English-Scandinavian" dictionaries) is that it provides a phonetic spelling for all the English entries, yet neglects to provide any for the danish words. This is helpful for danish users . but totally redundant for the native-english speakers. We need Anglo-Scandinavian dictionaries which are more helpful to English users. Dictionaries like this one are an overpriced disappointment, but it's just about adequate.

If you buy the kindle version of this dictionary, it cannot be used to check words (with the pop-up feature) in a book. So it is not a true kindle dictionary (which is a joke, considering the price).

It's a very good dictionary, with grammatical section, forming the plural and irregular verbs. Rich vocabulary, although it lacks some of the words and sometimes the word that is there in English, isn't there in Danish... Still, I recommend it.

If you like to study Danish seriously, don't buy this. The good dictionary needs to contain some grammars and the sentences example. I got nothing from this book. very useless.