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Duden Allgemeinbildun Wie Heibt Das Dingsda Ein Bildworterbuch
Duden Allgemeinbildun Wie Heibt Das Dingsda Ein Bildworterbuch is Duden’s picture dictionary for everyday things: the book that answers the most human of questions — what is that thing called? — with labelled illustrations of the objects that fill a German-speaking life.
Everyone knows the moment: the word is on the tip of the tongue, the object is in the hand, and only ‘Dingsda’ — thingy — comes out. This Bildwörterbuch exists for that moment, multiplied by thousands: kitchens, tools, clothing, vehicles, the body, the office, each drawn and named in German.
It is made for learners of German building real-world vocabulary, children and families, newcomers settling into a German-speaking country, and anyone whose German must survive contact with actual objects.
Vocabulary learned from lists floats free of the world; vocabulary learned from pictures sticks to it. This picture dictionary organises German the way life organises objects — by place and purpose — so the learner browses a kitchen, a workshop, a wardrobe, meeting each thing in its company and learning its name where the name belongs. The Duden authority behind the selections matters here more than anywhere: these are the words Germans actually use for things, including the compound nouns German loves to build, given with their articles — the detail that decides whether a learner’s German merely points or truly speaks. For children the book is a naming game that never empties; for adult learners it is the fastest repair for the commonest gap in coursebook German, which teaches essays about the environment while leaving its students unable to name a screwdriver, a ladle or a sleeve. New arrivals in a German-speaking country will find it quietly indispensable — the vocabulary of landlords, workshops, doctors and shops, organised for the moment of need and delightful enough to browse without one.
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About This Book
This is Duden’s picture dictionary (Bildwörterbuch) of everyday things under the playful title ‘Wie heißt das Dingsda’ — what is that thingy called: thousands of objects illustrated and named in German, organised by the areas of daily life, a vocabulary reference for learners and the curious.
What Readers Will Find
The World, Labelled in German
Household, food, tools, clothing, transport, work, nature and the body — each area pictured with its objects named, so whole fields of practical vocabulary are learned in their natural groups.
Names With Their Articles
Every noun with its gender — the small print that separates vocabulary decoration from usable German, learned here at the moment the word itself is learned.
The Words Coursebooks Skip
The everyday concrete vocabulary that curricula neglect and daily life demands: the name of the thing in your hand, at the market, in the workshop, at the doctor’s.
Key Features
The picture principle is the feature: image and word bound together, the oldest and strongest memory technique there is. Duden’s selection is the second — the real German names of real things — and the thematic organisation the third, matching how the words will actually be needed.
Who This Book Is For
It is for German learners at every level who lack everyday nouns, children and families learning together, newcomers to German-speaking countries, primary teachers, and translators who meet objects no text glossary names.
How to Use This Book
Learn by rooms and routines: take one pictured area a day — the kitchen this week, the bathroom next — and name the real objects aloud in your own home as you use them; the double exposure, page and world, fixes words permanently. Parents and teachers can play the title’s game: point, ask ‘Wie heißt das?’, and let the book referee. Keep it where things are handled, not on the study shelf.
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The synonym dictionary is Duden Das Wörterbuch Der Synonyme. The idiom collection is Langenscheidt 1000 Deutsche Redensarten.
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