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Bildwörterbuch Deutsch
Bildwörterbuch Deutsch is a German picture dictionary in the great German tradition of the Bildwörterbuch: the world drawn and labelled, plate by plate, so that every object, part, and process has its exact German name attached to its image.
Where an ordinary dictionary defines words with other words, the picture dictionary shows: the parts of an engine, the tools of a workshop, the anatomy of a plant, the equipment of a kitchen or a hospital — thousands of terms, many too specialised or too humble for ordinary dictionaries, each fixed to the thing it names.
It is written for everyone who works with German things and German words: learners building precise vocabulary, translators hunting the exact term, technicians and craftspeople, teachers, and the simply curious. It is less read than consulted — and consulted for a lifetime.
The picture dictionary answers the questions other dictionaries cannot: not ‘what does this word mean?’ but ‘what is this part called?’ Its plates organise the world into domains — house and garden, workshop and technology, nature, the body, professions, transport, science — and within each plate, numbering ties every depicted item to its German term, article included, so vocabulary is learned as a labelled map of reality. For learners, this produces a special kind of knowledge: words attached to things rather than to translations, the vocabulary of doing — cooking, repairing, gardening, building — that coursebooks omit because it cannot be dialogued. For translators and technical writers, it is a precision instrument. German reference publishing has prized the genre for a century; this volume carries the tradition to the learner’s desk.
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About This Book
The Bildwörterbuch is Germany’s own contribution to dictionary-making: a visual encyclopedia of names, in which the world is drawn in plates and every part is numbered and named. This German picture dictionary applies the genre to the learner’s and professional’s needs — exact German vocabulary for the physical world.
What Readers Will Find
Plates of the Whole World
Themed visual plates across the domains of life and work: the house and its systems, kitchen and workshop, garden and nature, the human body, clothing, food, vehicles and machines, professions and their tools, sport, science, and the natural world — each plate a complete labelled scene.
The Words Other Dictionaries Miss
Names of parts, tools, fittings, and processes — the bolt and the bracket, the petal and the stamen, the cutlery item and the machine component. Technical and everyday precision side by side, with articles attached to every noun as German reference demands.
Vocabulary Organised as the World Is
Terms learned in their families and places: everything on the workbench, everything in the engine bay. The organisation is the pedagogy — a word found among its neighbours is remembered with them, and a plate consulted for one term teaches twenty.
Key Features
Precision is the feature: drawn detail tied to exact terms, the format that has made the Bildwörterbuch a German institution. Comprehensiveness is the second — domains no language course touches — and permanence the third: things keep their names longer than slang keeps its meanings, so the book ages slowly and serves for decades.
Who This Book Is For
It is for learners who want vocabulary with exact referents, translators and technical writers, engineers, craftspeople, and medical or scientific readers working in German, teachers building topic vocabulary, and households that like a reference which answers the children’s hardest question: what is that called — in German?
How to Use This Book
Consult it at the moment of need — in the workshop, kitchen, garden, or text — and take the whole plate, not only the word you came for. Learners should learn plates as sets, naming everything in view; translators should bookmark their domains. Keep it where things are done rather than where books are shelved: it is a tool, and it behaves like one.
Related Books
The bilingual picture dictionary is the German English Bilingual Visual Dictionary. For young children, see Lets Learn German Picture Dictionary.
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