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Langenscheidt 1000 Deutsche Redensarten
Langenscheidt 1000 Deutsche Redensarten is Langenscheidt’s collection of the thousand German idioms that matter most: the fixed expressions — Redensarten — that Germans use daily and dictionaries of single words cannot explain.
An idiom is a trap for the literal mind: nothing about ‘ins Gras beißen’ or ‘die Daumen drücken’ survives word-by-word translation. This book disarms a thousand of those traps at once, each idiom presented with its meaning, its register and its use, so learners stop translating and start recognising.
It is made for learners of German from intermediate level upward, students who read and listen to real German, and teachers who know that idioms are where textbook German and street German finally meet.
Fluency has a sound, and much of it is idiom: the German that fills meetings, films, football commentary and family kitchens is laced with expressions whose meanings live nowhere in their words. A learner can command every tense and still be locked out of that layer — understanding each word and missing the sentence. This collection opens the layer: a thousand of the most frequent German idioms, explained clearly, with the situations and tones in which each belongs. Its thousand is a curriculum, not a trivia count — these are the expressions that recur, the ones whose absence marks a speaker as textbook-bound and whose presence makes German sound inhabited. For examination candidates, idioms season B2 and C1 speaking with exactly the naturalness examiners reward; for readers, they convert half-understood passages into fully understood ones. Browsable for pleasure and consultable in need, it is the rare reference that learners read cover to cover like a novel about how Germans actually talk.
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About This Book
This is Langenscheidt’s idiom dictionary for German: one thousand of the language’s most useful Redensarten — idioms and set phrases — each explained in meaning and use, a reference for learners who want to understand and speak the German that Germans actually speak.
What Readers Will Find
The Thousand That Recur
A frequency-chosen core of German idioms — the expressions of everyday talk, media and work — so the effort of learning them is repaid in comprehension every single day.
Meanings Made Plain
Each idiom decoded: what it means, where it is used, how formal it is, and the situations it fits — the difference between recognising an expression and daring to use it correctly.
Idioms as a Window on the Culture
Expressions carry a people’s imagery — its food, weather, work and humour — so the collection teaches German thinking alongside German speaking, the cultural layer no grammar contains.
Key Features
Selection is the feature: a thousand chosen by usefulness, not ten thousand chosen by completeness. Explanation quality is the second — clarity about register and context — and Langenscheidt’s learner-first presentation the third.
Who This Book Is For
It is for German learners from B1 upward, examination candidates enriching their speaking, readers and listeners of real German media, translators, and teachers of idiomatic German.
How to Use This Book
Learn idioms in small daily handfuls and anchor each to a scene — invent the moment you would say it, and the expression becomes yours. When one ambushes you in a film or text, look it up the same day; idioms learned at the point of need are never forgotten. Speakers preparing for examinations should keep a personal twenty — the idioms that fit their own topics — rehearsed until they surface unbidden.
Related Books
The synonym dictionary is Duden Das Wörterbuch Der Synonyme. A magazine issue for learners is Deutsch Perfekt Die 5 Groben.
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