Online dictionaries for German <-> English

i know of a great site called dict.leo.org. it's provided by students at the TMU. it's awesome! are there any other ones which can be recommended?

Yeah, Leo is great!

I also use Altavista's BabelFish. Although it is a translator it can be used as a dictionary.

Also, if you have a Pocket PC or Palm, SlovoEd is a great translator that is free - at least initially, until it starts haranging you to buy.

Viel Erfolg!

There's a review of the most popular ones here: Was Gratis-Übersetzer bieten

Although they gave Leo quite a bad score. They never really factored in usability or presentation of results and that is where leo wins hands down.

long time fan of dictionary.com. It's quick and easy.

long time fan of dict.leo.org. easy, everything! in fact, i think i might just look up a husband!

here's another one: dict.tu-chemnitz.de

I use Babylon Pro.

One click on a word anywhere on the screen (including graphics) and you have the translation in a second (or less) - plus (for writing German etc) whether its der, die or das. You choose which dictionaries you want locally installed, and which you want to access through the internet. Excellent.

It isn't free, but its cheap at the price. And there's a free demo, of course.

I always like to use dictionary.com, its also a good thesaurus. Britannica.com is also good for references, but you need to pay to have the full article.

I use m-w.com for English stuff, and dict.leo.org for German <-> English.

wordreference.com has a translation service for German and a few other languages. Has pop-up ads though, which can be a bit irritating.

GETrans is useful for offline looking up of German to English words and phrases.

Just for info,

I just spent an hour and a half doing some tax translations and used most of the sites listed here. Babelfish was better than expected for giving a basic idea of what the hell they were talking about, but the one Karambos listed, dict.tu-chemnitz.de, was the best for giving translations of individual words. It has a nifty feature that makes it a little fuzzy on the searches, so you still get a hit even if your adjective has a different ending (grosses vs. gross as an easy example) from the base word. Much higher hit rate than leo, but the longer phrases on leo made it worth using still.

As a new-German-language-struggler, I just wanted to share my newest love with all those in my position.

Is there anyone out there not using the LEO site yet? Its amazing. Give it a go. This has to be the best free web service that I've ever used, apart from The Sun online and TT.

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For dictionaries, I prefer the TU Chemnitz dictionary. I only go to LEO when I can't find the word I need in that one.

I'll be responsible for some trilingual translations (English, German and Chinese) at work, mainly dealing with the terms in environmental technologies. Sometimes neither the general online dictionaries like Leo, Answers, Dict and Wikipedia nor a common pocket dictionary can fix the problems with the technical terms.

The links to the online dictionaries are as follows,
Leo - www.leo.org
Answers - www.answers.com
Dict - www.dict.cc
Wikipedia - www.wikipedia.org

Anyone heard about any other online dictionaries except for the above? Could you please share your infos here? Thank you in advance.

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Google's language tools aren't bad for translating blocks of text to get overall gist. As always, it won't do for a complete translation.

As an alternative to Leo, the TU Chemnitz offers a translation website as well. I like it better than Leo because it often suggests sentences in which the word is used.

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http://www.freetranslation.com/

If you use the Firefox browser download and install the Foxlingo add-on. It provides dictionary and translation access between 45 different languages and 34 (free!) online translator services.

In case some readers of this thread are not aware, LEO also has German-Spanish and German-French online dictionaries available at the same URL as the German-English dictionary. While certainly not a subtitute for a specialist technical dictionary, I am regularly amazed at how good it is with economics and finance terms.

The TU Chemnitz website made me laugh today though... I was looking for the word that is used in German for the verb "to mail". The fourth suggestion was a mail-order sex shop

Clever stuff, eh? - didn't you know there is an automatic user personality profile analysis with each search so it homes in on exactly what you are looking for, even if you don't write it explicitly?

When i first came Leo was my closest friend...

Now I have found a freeware program (with no shit attached) call Lingopad...

I have it configured so that i double click the word to highlight and then hold ALT and right click...

It calls the program up and gives the translation of the selected word...

No cutting and pasting, it made the process so much quicker.

www.dict.cc is very good

This could be helpful in case you don´t know what a certain german or english phrase means.

http://www.linguee.de german interface
http://www.linguee.com/search english interface

It´s like a search engine and you type a word or phrase and get possible translations for it.

Nice heads-up, siskebab. It's fun to use and interesting, but like LEO the translations have to be taken with a pinch of salt sometimes. There is a rating system, however, which can help to avoid the worst pitfalls. It can be useful for confirming suspicions or establishing a direction for ideas.

Yeah http://www.linguee.de/ is good for phrases! But I'm also a fan of LEO.

This for me!