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Dictionary abbreviations

Postby markmcopc » July 10th, 2008, 11:33 pm

I don't always understand some of the results that I receive from http://www.interglot.com (Interglot) and http://www.vandale.nl/vandale/opzoeken/woordenboek (Van Dale). Ex:

part [de ~,het ~] (gedeelte)
piece [the ~]
...

I would have guessed that this meant that the word "part" is a de word when used in one sense, and a het word when used in another - that's the way Van Dale lists the results. But Interglot suggests all translations under the notation, [de ~, het ~], so I'm not certain that I've understood.

Also, I'm not always sure that I understand the abbreviations. The last three are from Van Dale ( I see that the superscript tag isn't enabled in this forum - but you can use your imagination).
  1. nw.
  2. ww.
  3. bijv.nw. / bijw.
  4. mv.
  5. znw.
  6. de[sup]m[/sup]
  7. de[sup]v[/sup]
  8. iem.
  9. others?

What does znw. really mean? What is meant by the three missing from the list (?) ?
  1. naamwoord (noun)
  2. werkwoord (verb)
  3. bijvoeglijk naamwoorden (adjective) / bijwoord (adverb)
  4. meervoud (plural)
  5. zelfstandig naamwoord (concatenated independent nouns?)
  6. ?
  7. ?
  8. ?
  9. others?

Mark
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Re: Dictionary abbreviations

Postby Grytolle » July 11th, 2008, 12:45 am

6. masculine word, you refer to it with hij/hem/zijn
7. feminine word, you refer to it with ze/haar

When vandale online lists "de" without an "m", the word is feminine, if it's got an m it's masculine, if it's got a v it is mandatory feminine in "verzorgde taal"
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Re: Dictionary abbreviations

Postby NikkiK » July 11th, 2008, 7:18 am

I don't always understand some of the results that I receive from http://www.interglot.com (Interglot) and http://www.vandale.nl/vandale/opzoeken/woordenboek (Van Dale).


Hi Mark, I can confirm that

8. iem. = iemand = somebody / person - of a person

If you want to give me an email address my Kramer's has a rather nifty list of symbols and abbreviations with translations. I can scan them and email them to you :-)

Kind regards

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Re: Dictionary abbreviations

Postby markmcopc » July 16th, 2008, 7:52 pm

NikkiK wrote:Hi Mark, I can confirm that

8. iem. = iemand = somebody / person - of a person

If you want to give me an email address my Kramer's has a rather nifty list of symbols and abbreviations with translations. I can scan them and email them to you :-)

Kind regards


Dank voor je suggestie, NikkiK. Ik dank je ook voor het toevoegen op mijn lijst van goedkope woordenboeken.
Thanks for your offer, NikkiK. Thank you too, for adding to my list of inexpensive dictionaries.

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