TY - BOOK AU - Beaton, K. B. TI - A practical dictionary of German usage SN - 0198240023 (acidfree paper) U1 - 438/.003 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Oxford :;New York PB - Clarendon Press ;;Oxford University Press KW - German language.;German language.;German language.;English language KW - Usage.;Dictionaries.;Idioms.;Dictionaries.;Dictionaries.;English.;Dictionaries.;German N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [809]-810) and indexes N2 - One of the most difficult tasks confronting the English speaker learning German is that of finding exactly the right German word to translate an English word in a particular context. Many common English words have several, sometimes a bewildering number of German equivalents. Thus it is all too easy to find yourself saying the equivalent of Have you extinguished the rubbish? instead of Have you put out the rubbish? ER -