Dictionaries for Learning German

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For learning German, there are several many different categories of dictionaries which may be of great help. Based on the definition language, dictionaries can be categorized into such as German in German, German in English or German in Any Other Language. Since my first language is Chinese, my recomandation would come with extra information in Chinese.

Dictionary Books

For understanding German

• German in German
  • Deutsch als Fremdsprache
    • Langenscheidt Grossworterbuch deutsch als Fremdsprache
    • PONS Großwörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache | 现代德语学习词典（德语版）
    • Hueber Wörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache
• German in German and Chinese
  • 朗式德汉双解词典
  • 德汉双解德语学习词典
• German in Chinese
  • 新德汉词典
  • 新德汉小词典
  • 袖珍德汉汉德词典, Bidirectional
  • 德汉小词典
  • 袖珍德华（拼音）词典
• German in English
  • Collins Pocket German Dictionary
  • Collins easy learning German Dictionary
  • Collins gem German Dictionary

Plus for understanding Chinese in German

• Chinese in German
  • 袖珍德汉汉德词典, Bidirectional

Dictionary Websites

For understanding German

• German in Multilingual

  • https://de.pons.com/

• German in German

  • https://www.verbformen.de/, Deutsche Wörter konjugieren und deklinieren
  • https://www.openthesaurus.de/, Synonyme und Assoziationen
  • http://www.frag-caesar.de/synonyme/, Synonym Wörterbuch
  • https://www.alle-synonyme.de/, Wörterbuch der Synonyme
  • https://www.alle-gegenteile.de/, Wörterbuch der Gegenteile (Antonymwörterbuch)
  • https://www.dwds.de/, Digital Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/, Grammatisches Informationssystem
  • https://www.duden.de/, Wörterbuch
  • https://de.pons.com/%C3%BCbersetzung/deutsch-als-fremdsprache
• German in Chinese
  • https://www.cidianwang.com/dezhong/
  • https://dict.leo.org/chinesisch-deutsch/, Bidirectional
  • https://www.godic.net/, Bidirectional, 德语助手
  • https://www.mydict.com/Woerterbuch/Deutsch-Chinesisch/, Bidirectional, 迈迪
  • http://www.handedict.de/chinesisch_deutsch.php, Bidirectional

Plus for understanding Chinese in German

• Chinese in German
  • https://www.cidianwang.com/zhongde/
  • https://dict.leo.org/chinesisch-deutsch/, Bidirectional
  • https://www.godic.net/, Bidirectional, 德语助手
  • https://www.mydict.com/Woerterbuch/Chinesisch-Deutsch/, Bidirectional, 迈迪
  • http://www.handedict.de/chinesisch_deutsch.php, Bidirectional

More Online Tools of Various Types

• Google
• Google Bilder
• Duden
• The Free Dictionary
• canoo
• DWDS
• Wikipedia
• Wiktionary
• DE↔EN Linguee
• DE→EN Collins
• DE↔EN LEO
• DE↔CN LEO
• DE↔EN Langenscheidt
• DE↔CN Langenscheidt
• DE↔EN PONS
• DE↔CN PONS
• DE↔EN Beolingus
• DE↔EN dict.cc

Plus

During the gap time since my last edit of this article to this time, I was also lucky that some visitors on the Internet discovered my this article and inform me more useful online tools for learning German. Of them, I would also like to introduce the following.

• sprachnudel.de
  • another lookup source for the German language with more than 230,000 entries as general dictionary as well as rhyming and synonym dictionary.